willie

Proper noun capitalized: Willie

Willie

1. A diminutive of the male given name William.
   • Well agreed, Willie; then sit thee down, swain;
     Such a song never heardest thou but Colin sing.1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd's Calendar: August
   • Not one of his old friends but had been taken to task, in Willie's familiar note of boyish plaintiveness: "Why don't you call me by my own name? I never did like 'Willie' - 'William' isn't so bad. But the other sounds like pinafores and bed sheets."1921 George Jean Nathan, Henry Mencken: The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness. Item notes:v64:1(Jan.1921):page 4
2. A diminutive of the female given name Wilhelmina or a feminine diminutive of William, often in the form Willie Mae.
   • Most of the names sounded white. There was Willie Mae Jones, Leroy Washington, Roosevelt Tucker, Bessie Lou Bean, and a few other black names. But the list looked awfully pale.1989, John Grisham, A Time To Kill, Island Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 308