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

1. 1.1British dated, informal A woman.
   〈英，非正式，旧〉女人，妇女
   Example sentencesExamples

   • 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’.’