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a name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix)
`Billy' is a hypocorism for `William'
How To Use pet name In A Sentence
- Slowly life road, a pet name will be coming.
- Her car's pet name is Betsy.
- This big grumbly rumbly bear of a man with shoulders wider than most airline seats and mitts so big that my kitty Abby could probably sit comfortably in his palm likes my silly pet name for him.
- Plus the new companion, a 20-year old seeming moppet named Karen Gillan, was constantly in shorts and micro-minis. William Bradley: A Welcome Blast From the New Doctor Who
- A hypocoristic is a lesser form of the given name used in more intimate situations, as a term of endearment, a pet name.
- Drafted, he served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970, shouldering a 60mm mortar whose pet name was Gertrude. Heroes or Villains?
- She used the inelegant, once-irritating pet name much less now. IN LOVE AND WAR
- Unconventional pet names such as 'huggle wuggles', 'cuddly beast', and 'doodlebug' are cropping up on lastminute. com, as customers send gifts to their better halves. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- Benny is a pet name for the rabbit.
- She used the inelegant, once-irritating pet name much less now. IN LOVE AND WAR
