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Example sentences for: endearment

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This situation brings to public notice what words are used as terms of endearment in direct address between the sexes, more so a man to a woman.
Its a term of endearment and a word we have used for years.
A news item published in a British national newspaper in February, 1995, gave details of a ban applied to a northern England city council's telephonists working in the environmental services department by a senior director, stating the telephonists should no longer add the endearment luv while greeting a caller.
Among the several types of doubles in English, a rather large group ends both parts with the diminutive suffix - y or - ie . The group seems also to contain two similar sub-groups that produce opposite effects: those that diminish size and express endearment or amusement and those that diminish stature or worth and express disapproval or contempt.
It is also possible they are a corruption of poppet, poppit, poppette, poopet, from the French poupette doll, an endearment still used though ancient, poppet being the name for a pretty child or a dainty young woman.