Noun
Sweetheart.
Usage- Archaic
- endearing
- Examples
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Where is that dawdling dowsabel.
"My sweet! My innocent! My dowsabel!" cried Sally. "Has some blaggard trifled with you?"
More examples (1)
The old nurse immediately folded him to her broad bosom, patted him on the back, and said, "There, there, my dowsabel. [...] There, my innocent, you come along of me to the kitchen [...]"