1881. Grant, Bush-life, i. 227. There were two or three mickies and
wild heifers.
Mid (or Middy), subs. (common).—A midshipman.
1812. Southey, Letters [ed. Warter, 1856], ii. 315. I have written
to Bedford to learn what mids of the Victory fell in that action.
1836. M. Scott, Tom Cringle’s Log, xii. The purser and doctor, and
three of the middies forward, Thomas Cringle, gent., pulling the
stroke-oar.
1847. Lytton, Lucretia, pt. ii. ch. 1. Percival was meant for the
navy, and even served as a mid for a year or so.
Midden, subs. (Scots’).—A foul slattern; a heap (q.v.). [Midden =
dunghill].
An eating midden, subs. phr. (Scots’).—A glutton; a belly-god.
Middies, subs. (Stock Exchange).—Midland Railway Ordinary Stock.
Middle, subs. (venery).—1. The waist.
1640. Wit’s Recr. [Hotten], 136. I care not, let my friend go
fiddle; Let him mark her end, I’ll mark her middle.
1719. T. Durfey, Pills to Purge, v. 79. In troth sweet Robin, I
cannot, He hath got me about the middle.—Ibid. vi. 31. He took her
by the middle, and taught her by the flute.