m'lovely

plural m'lovelies

1. An affectionate term of address.

   "Don't yu'm cry like that, m'lovely, they owd Jarmans'll think'ee a poor tule, that they will."

   1948, George Goldsmith Carter, The Smacksmen: a Story of the Fishermen of the Borough, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, page 182

   2 more examples

   "Masses and prayers won't do him no good at this point, m'lovelies, since he's not much better a fellow today than he was when he bid you adieux these twenty years past […]"

   1990, Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, translated by Jane Brierley, Yellow-Wolf & Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence, Montreal: Véhicule Press, →ISBN, page 124

   Darnell leaned back in his upholstered stimuchair and activated the interoffice transmitter. "You may send Hopkirk in now, Julitta m'lovely."

   1992, Anne McCaffrey, Margaret Ball, PartnerShip, Riverdale, NY: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 106