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plural Addys · plural Addies · alternative Addie · alternative Addi
- A diminutive of the female given names Adelaide, Adeline, Adrienne, and Addison, from the Germanic languages or French or transferred from the surname.
My name is Addison Jane Dawson, but you can call me Addy; everyone else does.
2009, J. Scott Romig, The Lookout Tree, Author House, →ISBN, page 1 - A diminutive of the male given name Adam, from Hebrew.
"Let be, Addy, let be. Ben will be joking. Why, he's i' the right to laugh at me--I canna help laughing at myself." "I shan't loose him till he promises to let the door alone," said Adam.
1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Adam Bede/Chapter I”, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
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