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JUDY

Traducere în limba română

Judy substantiv

1. personaj feminin în teatrul de păpuşi, soţia lui Punch.

2. (fam.) femeie ridicolă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

As he held Ruth in his arms and soothed her, he took great consolation in the thought that the Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady were pretty much alike under their skins.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Both of these expressions Mrs. Crupp considered actionable, and had expressed her intention of bringing before a “British Judy”—meaning, it was supposed, the bulwark of our national liberties.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I have forgotten their names—Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela or Gloria or Judy or June, and their last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner ones of the great American capitalists whose cousins, if pressed, they would confess themselves to be.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

And all the while there was running through his head Kipling's line: "_And the Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins_."

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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