watchie

From watch +‎ -ie.

watchie (plural watchies)

1. (colloquial, rare) Diminutive of watch (“timepiece”).
   • 1913 August 14, “The Week”, in Table Talk, number 1464 (534 New Series), Melbourne, Vic., →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

     We had better go, it’s getting very late; / Just look what little watchie says—eleven twenty-eight.

   • 1951 February 1, Mark Jewelers, “Got, Get, Git”, in The Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet, 39th year, number 57, Van Nuys, Calif., →OCLC, page 9-A, column 6:

     So “along little watchie, git along” . . . to Mark Jewelers for now, at long last any old discarded watch becomes a thing of real value, that is, when it is traded-in at Mark Jewelers.

   • 1997 [1928–1940], Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, “Black Magic and Its Exposure”, in The Master and Margarita, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2016, →ISBN, book 1, page 118:

     ‘Your little watchie? Kindly take it,’ the checkered one said, smiling casually and offering the bewildered Rimsky his own property on a dirty palm.

     [original: ― Ваши часики? Прошу получить, ― развязно улыбаясь, сказал клетчатый и на грязной ладони подал растерянному Римскому его собственность.]

     ― Vaši časiki? Prošu polučitʹ, ― razvjazno ulybajasʹ, skazal kletčatyj i na grjaznoj ladoni podal rasterjannomu Rimskomu jevo sobstvennostʹ.

   • 1998, Dod Martin, quotee, “Dunkirk”, in David Atherton, editor, We’re Far Fae Hame Now! Aberdeen and the North East’s Experience of Military Service Abroad: The Great War to the Gulf, Aberdeen: Aberdeen City Council, →ISBN, “Second World War” section, page 38, column 2:

     I left a little watchie, an’ that had disappeared as well.