"maidie" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From maid + -ie.",
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          "ref": "1882, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, An Entirely Original Fairy Opera, in Two Acts, Entitled Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri, London: Chappell & Co., […], page 32",
          "text": "If you go in / You’re sure to win— / Yours will be the charming maidie: / Be your law / The ancient saw, / “Faint heart never won fair lady!”",
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          "ref": "1893, J[ohn] P[atrick] Harrington, “Like a Lady”, in Wehman’s Collection of Songs, number 42, page 17, column 2",
          "text": "Like a lady, like a lady, like a highly educated little maidie; / When they praised her summer hats, by the way she answers “rats!” / You can tell she is ev’ry inch a lady, like a lady.",
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          "ref": "1903, Alfred Colbeck, “The Equine God: A Strange Story of Adventure and Peril. […] Chapter XXV.—How We Came Home Again.”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, page 515, column 2",
          "text": "There be a little maidie o’ mine down to Marazion, livin’ with her granny; […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1905, Philip Green Wright, “Fascination”, in The Dial of the Heart, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, page 27",
          "text": "See, my little maidie, / On the promenade / ’Long the shore, more and more / Couples gayly clad.",
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          "ref": "1921, Edward Clarence Figg, Sketches of the Figg Family from 1719 to 1921, Louisville, Ky.: Press of Moll & Company, […], page 116",
          "text": "Good-by, little maidie, I never shall stand / In your sunshine, my darling, my rose of the land!",
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        {
          "ref": "1960, Colette, chapter 12, in Antonia White, transl., Claudine Married, London: Secker and Warburg, page 161",
          "text": "Aren’t you going to come and see us, my little maidie?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Clare B. Dunkle, The House of Dead Maids, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 5",
          "text": "“Pleased to meet you, little maidie,” he said, shaking hands. “My name’s Arnby. You look a right canny lass. How old would you happen to be?” “I’m eleven, sir.[…]”",
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  "etymology_text": "From maid + -ie.",
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          "ref": "1882, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, An Entirely Original Fairy Opera, in Two Acts, Entitled Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri, London: Chappell & Co., […], page 32",
          "text": "If you go in / You’re sure to win— / Yours will be the charming maidie: / Be your law / The ancient saw, / “Faint heart never won fair lady!”",
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        },
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          "ref": "1893, J[ohn] P[atrick] Harrington, “Like a Lady”, in Wehman’s Collection of Songs, number 42, page 17, column 2",
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          "ref": "1903, Alfred Colbeck, “The Equine God: A Strange Story of Adventure and Peril. […] Chapter XXV.—How We Came Home Again.”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, page 515, column 2",
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