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dearie
noun- used by women as a form of address UK, 1681
A less intimate variation of conventional “dear” (a loved one). - I hope you’re enjoying your fags, I said. I’m enjoying them a treat, dearie. That’s what old Beth says. — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 35, 1966
- used as an affected form of address among male homosexuals UK
Camp adoption of sense 1. - Don’t ask me what it was, dearie; it certainly wasn’t art. — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 31, 1962
- Lee touched his sweater. “Sweet stuff, dearie,” he said. — William Burroughs, Queer, p. 53, 1985
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