midear

plural midears · alternative m'dear

1. A familiar term of address.

   "Come in midears and sit down." She held out her hand.

   2016, Jean Daish, Operation Dynamo, London: Olympia Publishers, →ISBN, page 90

   2 more examples

   "No, I ain't got no gaff," replied Shiner, lifting the fender another notch. "If I had, you should have it, midear."

   1935, Henry Williamson, Salar the Salmon, Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, published 1936, page 267

   'So, midear,' Elfrida addresses the watchful young person on her immediate left, 'you are not familiar with Devon?'

   1996, Gillian White, The Beggar Bride, London: Orion, →ISBN, page 82