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- proper noun A
diminutive of the femalegiven name Elizabeth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Waiting with Bethy and little Stephen, and we will all be together again in a better world.
Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010
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My high-school boyfriend's dad used to call me "Bethy-knees" affectionately.
Phonics Has Failed Us Jen 2009
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He took the girls 'hands — Bethy on his left and Ray-Ray on his right — and walked into the oxygen-abetted garden.
Free Time 2008
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His stomach was totally devoid of food, and he knew he needed some sugar, but he lay on the couch and thought of Ray-Ray and Bethy some more.
Free Time 2008
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Bingham sometimes wondered if he had too much room there, by himself, but he wanted Bethy and Ray-Ray to be able to come visit.
Free Time 2008
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In the same way he tried not to think of the infinity of death, Bingham tried hard not to think of his free time as the absence of Ray-Ray and Bethy, though he occasionally couldn't help it.
Free Time 2008
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"It's so beautiful, Bling," Linda told him after one of his trips, when Ray-Ray and Bethy had permitted her to join them for a sleepover.
Free Time 2008
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It informed him that it was deemed best for Bethy and Ray-Ray to spend the summer remaining on in the school's adorable cottages modeled on a German village, nestled on their emerald campus, though Bingham was welcome (and encouraged!) to visit for Ray-Ray's birthday in June.
Free Time 2008
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As much as he missed Ray-Ray and Bethy and Linda and their life together, he missed the house, too, and all of its features.
Free Time 2008
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Bethy sat down on the bench next to him and wrapped her arms around him.
Free Time 2008
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