"darlin'" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "G-dropping.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "darlin's",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "darlin' (plural darlin's)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              252,
              260
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1923, E[dith] Œ[none] Somerville, Martin Ross [pseudonym; Violet Florence Martin], “‘D’Ye Ken John Peel—’”, in Wheel-tracks, London: Longmans, Green and Co. […], →OCLC, page 118:",
          "text": "The Master dismounted, sending on his horse to the western end of the covert, and climbing the bank of the wood was swallowed up in jungle, from whose depths we could dimly hear him cheering the hounds in the well-remembered way: “Thatsy-atsy-atsy, my darlin’s! Find him for me Thruelass and Naygress, good bitchies!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2001, Damien Rice, “Cheers Darlin’”, track 7 on O (2002)"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "darling"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Informal form of darling."
      ],
      "id": "en-darlin'-en-noun-kRkngIJR",
      "links": [
        [
          "darling",
          "darling#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "därʹlĭn",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɑːlɪn/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "därʹlĭn",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɑɹlɪn/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "darlin'"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "G-dropping.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "darlin's",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "darlin' (plural darlin's)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              252,
              260
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1923, E[dith] Œ[none] Somerville, Martin Ross [pseudonym; Violet Florence Martin], “‘D’Ye Ken John Peel—’”, in Wheel-tracks, London: Longmans, Green and Co. […], →OCLC, page 118:",
          "text": "The Master dismounted, sending on his horse to the western end of the covert, and climbing the bank of the wood was swallowed up in jungle, from whose depths we could dimly hear him cheering the hounds in the well-remembered way: “Thatsy-atsy-atsy, my darlin’s! Find him for me Thruelass and Naygress, good bitchies!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2001, Damien Rice, “Cheers Darlin’”, track 7 on O (2002)"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "darling"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Informal form of darling."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "darling",
          "darling#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "därʹlĭn",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɑːlɪn/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "därʹlĭn",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɑɹlɪn/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "darlin'"
}