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Definition of Pet name
1. Noun. A name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix). "`Billy' is a hypocorism for `William'"
Definition of Pet name
1. Noun. A nickname, especially a name used by those in love with one another. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pet Name
Literary usage of Pet name
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge by Sara Coleridge Coleridge, Edith Coleridge (1873)
"X. A pet name—Childlike Playfulness of Aristophanes—Theological Readings of SC—The
Miracle of Gadara—The Origin of Mental Disorders not a Religious, ..."
2. Poems, by E.B. Barrett by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1856)
"THE PET-NAME. - the name Which from THEIR lips seemed a caress. 1 Miss MITFORD'S
Dramatic Scenes. I HAVE a name, a little name, ..."
3. The British Female Poets by George Washington Bethune (1865)
"Thy brightness in His face we find — Behold our darkness only there ! THE PET-NAME.
the name Which from THEIR lips seemed a caress. ..."
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