chickabiddy

plural chickabiddies

1. childishA chicken or similar bird.
2. Term of endearment for a young child or loved one.

   Why, my dear, who'd murder sich chickabiddies as you?

   1841, Charles Dickens, chapter LIX, in Barnaby Rudge

   1 more example

   "I tried to cheer her up a little with touches of warm tones here and there--all lies--same kind you tell your own chickabiddy when she's blue--but she wouldn't have it and cried straight ahead for four hours until the sun came out; but I was through by that time and waded ashore.

   1909, Francis Hopkinson Smith, The Man In The High-Water Boots