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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From maid + -y.
Noun
maidy (plural maidies)
- Diminutive of maid.
1894 December, Edward A 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: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!”
1902, James Creelman, Eagle Blood, Boston, Mass.: Lothrop Publishing Company, page 116:“[…] Poor little maidy, poor little beauty.” A tear rolled down his brown face as he stroked the small hands.
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: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.
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:“Just one moment, little maidy!” called Mr. Betts. “Are you quite sure that this will be all right with your daddy?”
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: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.
1972, Jean Ure, If You Speak Love, Ian Henry Publications, published 1976, →ISBN, page 123:‘Hallo there, little maidy!’
2012, Rachel Hartman, Seraphina, Doubleday Canada, →ISBN, pages 78, 109, and 145:“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!
2013, Ari Berk, Mistle Child (The Undertaken Trilogy), Simon & Schuster BFYR, →ISBN, page 227:“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, Elizabeth Essex, The Scandal Before Christmas, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN:Perhaps a little more time, young sir, to get to know the little maidy.
2016, Anne Gracie, The Summer Bride, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 177: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.