Willie
nom proprecourant dans les dialogues
- //ˈwɪli//
A diminutive of the male given name William.
nom propre
- 1
A diminutive of the male given name William.
Well agreed, Willie; then sit thee down, swain; Such a song never heardest thou but Colin sing.
Not one of his old friends but had been taken to task, in Willie's familiar note of boyish plaintiveness: "Why don't you call me by my own name? I never did like 'Willie' - 'William' isn't so bad. But the other sounds like pinafores and bed sheets."
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A diminutive of the female given name Wilhelmina or a feminine diminutive of William, often in the form Willie Mae.
Most of the names sounded white. There was Willie Mae Jones, Leroy Washington, Roosevelt Tucker, Bessie Lou Bean, and a few other black names. But the list looked awfully pale.
Étymologie
Etymology tree English Will Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English -ie English Willie From Will + -ie.
Willie · A diminutive of the male given name William.
willing · Ready to do something, particularly something that requires…Willing · A surname.willingly · Of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.