shirtie

From shirt +‎ -ie.

shirtie (plural shirties)

1. (colloquial, rare) Diminutive of shirt.
   • 1912 December 24, Mike Donnelly, quotee, “Negro Boy Picked Up in Tree, 100 Miles at Sea: Was Swimming When Storm Came—‘Worth Saving for He Always Says “Sir”’”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, night edition, volume 65, number 126, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 6:

     An’ that’s how we finds him, hangin’ on like grim death, him and his little shirtie.

   • 1916, Nicolay Gogol, translated by Thomas Seltzer, act II, scene I, in The Inspector-General: A Comedy in Five Acts […] (The Borzoi Plays; 4), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC, page 37:

     Ah, if the old gentleman only knew it! He wouldn’t care that you are an official. He’d lift up your little shirtie and would lay it on so that you’d go about rubbing yourself for a week.

     [original: Эх, если б узнал это старый барин! Он не посмотрел бы на то, что ты чиновник, а, поднявши рубашонку, таких бы засыпал тебе, что б дня четыре ты почесывался.]

     Ex, jesli b uznal eto staryj barin! On ne posmotrel by na to, što ty činovnik, a, podnjavši rubašonku, takix by zasypal tebe, što b dnja četyre ty počesyvalsja.

   • 1999, Helen Butcher, “Not far from Liverpool”, in The Treacle Stick, Warwick, Warwickshire: QuercuS, →ISBN, page 138:

     I bought only George a present, something so different, so unusual, that he couldn’t possibly go through life without one. It was a little shirt on its own little hanger with this verse on the front: ‘When your handkerchief is clean, Put it it where it can be seen, But when your handkerchief is dirty, Put it in this little shirtie.’