nounplural noun Judies

• 1The wife of Punch in the Punch and Judy show.

  Synonyms

  lady, adult female, female

  1. 1.1British informal, dated A woman.
     More example sentences

     • ‘Aeons before political correctness reared its ugly head, the gangsters and apes and crooks (his guys) and their dolls (cuties, tomatoes, pancakes, judies) infested a certain section of Broadway, the main artery of Manhattan.’
     • ‘A female may be my sheila, my bird, my charley, my good sort, my hot-drop, my judy or my wife, but she is never ‘my mate’.’’