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dearies

dearies is the plural of deary.

dearies is the plural of dearie.

Meaning of deary

Noun

deary (plural dearies)

  1. (informal) A dear; a darling.
  2. (informal) A term of address for a female.
    • Listen, deary: I'd appreciate your not talking about my son like that.

Meaning of dearie

Noun

dearie (plural dearies)

  1. (colloquial, term-of-address) A person who is dear; sweetie.
    • What a scare you gave me, dearie.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

Questions about dearies

What is dearies the plural of?
Dearies is the plural of deary.

Words near dearies in the dictionary

  1. Dearham
  2. dearheart
  3. dearhearts
  4. dearie
  5. dearie me
  6. dearies
  7. dearing
  8. Dearinger
  9. Dearingers
  10. Dearings
  11. dearish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dearies (page history and authors); deary (page history and authors); dearie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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