The phrase "a dearie" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used as a term of endearment or affection, typically in informal contexts.
Example: "Oh, you sweet little dearie, come here and give me a hug."
Alternatives: "a sweetheart" or "a darling".
With her chilling witch's cackle (exactly what you would expect to hear following: "Have an apple, dearie")., she told us: "Had I not won that reward challenge, I'se a-gonna take her down in the woods and run with her and hide".
Guests in Opus consume roughly six hundred pounds of fries in an evening, Dearie said, and fry consumption rises with the number of Americans on board and the number of children — as does pizza consumption.
With her sly wisp of a voice, Ms. Dearie exudes the ageless charm of a pixie grandmother.
"They expected it to sell a few thousand copies," said Bob Spitz, the author of "Dearie," a new biography of Child.
Unlike Dearie, a minimalist to her bones, Ms. Mulder has a Broadway side that reared up now and then.
Parkchester was "a lily-white community," Mr. Dearie said, a haven for firemen, policemen, Con Edison workers and employees of the telephone company.
It was built the same year as the neighborhood, which at the time was one of the largest rental communities in the country, said John C. Dearie, a Parkchester native who was its state assemblyman from 1973 to 1993.
Federal prosecutors argued against unsealing the plea agreement, according to a memorandum by Dearie last week, saying that it would alert targets to "the scope and nature of the government's evidence" and that making Blazer's cooperation public could "jeopardize his safety".
But on another important issue in the case -- whether the taxi commission has the power, after a hearing, to suspend or revoke taxi licenses after only the first or second time a driver has illegally refused a hail -- Judge Dearie sided with the agency, saying that city laws "at least arguably" give it the authority to do so.
In matters of interpretation, Dearie was a stealth bomber who with the tiniest inflection could insert a note of scathing sarcasm into a performance.
"If we made them ourselves, we'd need four or five guys doing nothing but pushing potatoes through a cutter all day," Dearie said.
