A playful or informal term for a character or person associated with cinders; sometimes used as a proper name or nickname (like Cinderella).
From cinder + -ie (diminutive or familiar English suffix). This is a colloquial derivation, possibly influenced by the fairy tale name Cinderella, which itself comes from 'cinders' in the hearth where the character slept.
This word shows how fairy tales embed themselves in everyday language—'Cindie' as a nickname exists precisely because Cinderella's name literally means 'girl from the cinders.'
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