Terms of endearment

Recently in my comics feed, a Calvin and Hobbes re-run with endearments: pooty pie, bitsy pookums, snoogy woogy — from Wiktionary: term of endearment: a word, phrase, or nickname used as a term of address expressing affection (synonym: endearment) The Wiktionary definition specifies that endearments (of all sorts) are terms of address (rather than expressions … Continue reading Terms of endearment