dawtie

"Ah, my dawtie," she cried, so tenderly, "what does it matter wha he is when you canna help it!"

The Little Minister 1898

A 'at aince they see a lassie no' unlike ither lassies, away goes their learning, and they skirl out, 'You dawtie!'

The Little Minister 1898

'I'll dawtie ye, my man!' she says, an 'WHANG, afore ye ken whaur ye are, the pat-stick is acquant wi' the side o 'yer heid.

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

'I'll dawtie ye, rinnin' rakin 'to the public-hoose wi' yer hard-earned shillin's.

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

But a 'micht hae saved mysel' the trouble: afore I got tae the gairden gate they were comin 'up as chief (friendly) as ye like, and Lachlan wes callin' Elsie his bonnie dawtie.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

"Fourteen hun'red pounds a 'thegither, dawtie," he said in a tearful voice.

Winter Evening Tales Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

"The best day's work that ever either of ye did yet I And I'm bound to say, my dawtie, ye make a real, bonny couple."

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

"Will ye no come and bide wi 'me, dawtie?" he said, meaning little by the question.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

The old man received her kindly, called her his dawtie, and made her sit down by him on a three-legged _creepie_, talking to her as if she had been quite a child, while she, capable of high converse as she was, replied in corresponding terms.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

Gang hame, dawtie, and say yer prayers to be preserved frae the wiles o 'Sawtan.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864