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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.
The Geordies do use pet as an endearment for wife or girl friend: I won't forget, pet, also in more general terms in conversing with people of all ages.
The WP , historically very skittish in its treatment of race, doesn't complicate the story with the inconvenient but true observation that since most whites know better than to use the N-word epithet, and since it has become a common phrase of salutation and even endearment among blacks, a high proportion of its current usage is in fact as a synonym for "black person."
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.
But then, like an endearment to a beloved one, they will murmur “pashmina” and spread before you a shawl of soft, warm wool shorn, they tell you, from the underbelly of the wild Himalayan goats.