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maidy en · NOUN

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Etymology

From maid + -y.

Meanings

1. (diminutive, form-of) Diminutive of maid.
   form of maid
   • She shivered recalling how she’d been told by one of the girls that Mort had promised Daisy to a man who liked beating up girls, and who fancied himself a crippled little maidy. 2016, Anne Gracie, The Summer Bride, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 177:
   • “[…] Poor little maidy, poor little beauty.” A tear rolled down his brown face as he stroked the small hands. 1902, James Creelman, Eagle Blood, Boston, Mass.: Lothrop Publishing Company, page 116:
   • “Are you all right, maidy?” asked the other, the shorter of the two, grabbing my upper arm urgently. […] “What did you say your name was, maidy?” […] A fair maidy tries to save him, heroic townsfolk fish him out of the drink, and then—triumphal music! 2012, Rachel Hartman, Seraphina, Doubleday Canada, →ISBN, pages 78, 109, and 145:
   • ‘Hallo there, little maidy!’ 1972, Jean Ure, If You Speak Love, Ian Henry Publications, published 1976, →ISBN, page 123:
   • ‘You wished that we should meet this little maidy,’ said the queen. 2007, Mary Hooper, At the House of the Magician, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 198:
   • Perhaps a little more time, young sir, to get to know the little maidy. 2013, Elizabeth Essex, The Scandal Before Christmas, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN:
   • Mama is the sunlight and starlight—the lady / That makes the gardens sweeter and brighter / For every little baby boy and every little maidy / That listens to the song she is humming / (Down in the gardens where the birdies keep shady), / “Nid-nod-Noddy’s coming!” 1894 December, Edward A[ugustus] Jenks, “The Gardens of Noddy. (A Mother-Song.)”, in The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress, volume XVII, number 6, Concord, N.H.: […] the Granite Monthly Company, page 366:
   • He was only the farmer’s boy, mark you, and you wouldn’t expect much from him, especially with the little maidy there, down from the house. 1964 autumn, E. G. Lee, “Never a Word”, in H. L. Short, editor, The Hibbert Journal, volume 63, number 248, London: George Allen & Unwin; Boston, Mass.: The Beacon Press, page 23:
   • “And this is not the first time you’ve helped a troubled little maidy into the world, is it? What a gallant you are,” added the third. 2013, Ari Berk, Mistle Child (The Undertaken Trilogy), Simon & Schuster BFYR, →ISBN, page 227:
   • You and maidy Anne must come in, if it be only for half an hour. 1880, Thomas Hardy, The Trumpet-Major: A Tale, volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], page 57:
   • “Just one moment, little maidy!” called Mr. Betts. “Are you quite sure that this will be all right with your daddy?” 1933 October, Estelle Urbahns, “Nancy Lee Plays the Game”, in Jane Palmer, editor, Wee Wisdom, volume XXXIX, number 3, Kansas City, Mo.: Unity School of Christianity, page 11:
   • She died when she was 25 and left a baby eight months old. So I took her and she has been my little maidy ever since then. 1918 May, J[ohn] Middleton Murry, editor, The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1929, page 155:

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