Jeffie

alternative Jeffi

1. uncommonA male given name.

   It was true. Especially for Jeffie, her baby. He'd had enough hurt and she had to protect him. [...] Her cousin Mimi's husband the psychiatrist said, "Everyone has his own mourning time. Jeffie will go to school when he's ready."

   2009, Iris Rainer Dart, Til the Real Thing Comes Along, →ISBN

2. uncommonA female given name.

   "Of course, honey," said Jeffie. Her words were slurred [...]

   2007, J. Larry Jacobson, A Nest in the Storm, →ISBN, page 216

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   [...] her young friend Jeffersonia Davis Lucket. The name was a survival of war-time Confederate zeal, now nearly always mercifully shortened into "Jeffie," as being better suited for the owner. When Jeffie entered, Miss Stacy gave a little start, [...]

   1898, Alice Maude Ewell, “Miss Stacy's Buryin'-Money”, in The Century, page 456

   [...] getting close enough to him to please Joey's wife, Jeffie, and yet staying at a sufficient distance to avoid compromising himself and his family.

   1974 March 18, Donald Goddard, “An Incredible Evening With Joey Gallo”, in New York Magazine