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deary, -rie, n. and a.|ˈdɪərɪ|
Also 7–8 dearee.
[f. dear a.1 + -ie, -y4.]
Diminutive of dear.
A. n. A little dear; a darling: a familiar term of amatory and conjugal endearment.
1681Otway Soldier's Fort. iii. i, Lose thee, poor Love, poor Dearee, poor Baby. 1705Vanbrugh Confed. v. ii. 301 [To their husbands] Bye, dearies! 1739R. Bull tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 151 You'll be her Love, her Dearee, what you will. 1795Wolcott (P. Pindar) Pindariana Wks. 1812 IV. 73 He hugs and kisses his old Deary. 1870Dickens E. Drood i, Here's another ready for ye, deary. 1890W. A. Wallace Only a Sister! 88 A Mapleton in love is a Mapleton still, for all your pretty ways, dearie.
B. adj. dial. See quots.
1691Ray N.C. Words, Deary, little. 1828Craven Dial., Deary, an adjunct to little and equivalent to very; ‘This is a deary little bit’. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., ‘I never seed such deary little apples in all my life.’ 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. s.v., ‘There is a deary little gibby lamb.’
C. int. deary me! an extension of dear me! usually more sorrowful in its tone.
1785Hutton Bran New Wark 343 (E.D.S.) 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! 1815Jane Taylor Display xi. (ed. 2) 132 ‘Deary me!’ said she. 1833Marryat P. Simple i, O deary me! he must have lost a mint of money. |