dearien.adj.int.
/ˈdɪəri/, U.S. /ˈdɪri/ Diminutive of dear.
A. n.
A little dear; a darling: a familiar term of amatory and conjugal endearment.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun]
darlingc888
belamy?c1225
culver?c1225
dearc1230
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heartc1300
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cinnamonc1405
honeycombc1405
lovec1405
wantonc1450
mulling?a1475
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honeysop?a1513
powsowdie?a1513
suckler?a1513
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honey child1832
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cabbage1840
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angel pie1878
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baby cake1949
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1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune iii. i. 39 Loose thee, poor Love, poor Dearee, poor Baby.
1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy v. ii. 301 [To their husbands] Bye, dearies!
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 151 You'll be her Love, her Dearee, what you will.
1794 ‘P. Pindar’ Pindariana (1795) 62 He hugs and kisses his old Deary.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood i. 2 Here's another ready for ye, deary.
1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 88 A Mapleton in love is a Mapleton still, for all your pretty ways, dearie.
B. adj. dialect.
See quots.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [adjective]
sweeta1225
ownc1300
deara1325
littlec1405
whitec1460
bonny1540
honeya1556
nitty1598
honey-sweeta1616
old1644
dearie1691
ou1838
diddy1963
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Deary, little.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Deary, an adjunct to little and equivalent to very; ‘This is a deary little bit’.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) ‘I never seed such deary little apples in all my life.’
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) There is a deary little gibby lamb.
C. int.
deary me! an extension of dear me! usually more sorrowful in its tone.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > exclamation of regret [interjection]
alack1447
ah1509
ocha1522
alack the day1565
ay me!1591
Ichabod1702
deary me!1785
1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark (E.D.S.) 343 Deary me! deary me! forgive me good Sir. I'll steal naa maar..My mother, my brothers and sisters, and my ald neam, O deary me!
1815 J. Taylor Display (ed. 2) xi. 132 ‘Deary me!’ said she.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. i. 13 O deary me..he must have lost a mint of money.
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