"childie" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "child",
        "3": "ie"
      },
      "expansion": "child + -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "child + -ie",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "childies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "childie (plural childies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ie",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1921, Angela Brazil, A Popular Schoolgirl",
          "text": "Now, don't cry about it, childie!\" as a big tear splashed down Ingred's dress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1883, Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin, Miss Prudence",
          "text": "\"And now, childie, about your praying.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Saxe Holm's Stories",
          "text": "Oh, my childie,\" said Uncle Jo, \"how wrong this has been in me!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 45, July, 1861",
          "text": "\"Well now, childie,\" said Jocunda, \"you can sit here and weave your garlands, while I go and look after the conserves of raisins and citrons that Sister Cattarina is making.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an affectionate name for a child"
      ],
      "id": "en-childie-en-noun-T0i7X9yi",
      "links": [
        [
          "child",
          "child#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "childie"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "child",
        "3": "ie"
      },
      "expansion": "child + -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "child + -ie",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "childies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "childie (plural childies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ie",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1921, Angela Brazil, A Popular Schoolgirl",
          "text": "Now, don't cry about it, childie!\" as a big tear splashed down Ingred's dress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1883, Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin, Miss Prudence",
          "text": "\"And now, childie, about your praying.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Saxe Holm's Stories",
          "text": "Oh, my childie,\" said Uncle Jo, \"how wrong this has been in me!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 45, July, 1861",
          "text": "\"Well now, childie,\" said Jocunda, \"you can sit here and weave your garlands, while I go and look after the conserves of raisins and citrons that Sister Cattarina is making.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an affectionate name for a child"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "child",
          "child#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "childie"
}