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Honey fits here into an endearment classification, perhaps also used more in North America, where the British equivalent is darling.
The Wicked Witch, especially, uses terms of endearment ( my little pretty, my fine gentlemen ) when addressing others; but her menacing face and gestures, her vicious sarcasm, her screaming laughter, and her saccharine voice while uttering those polite-sounding addresses and scary death-threats are much more effective and nasty than simple name-calling would be.
' There is much previously unrecorded material: button up `cease betting, or lower one's stakes considerably when one is winning'; kipping `masturbating'; sappho term of endearment used between lesbians, hence derisively addressed to passive homosexuals.
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.
Pop, have you seen my toothbrush does not have the same endearment to it somehow, possibly because of its use as a term of address for father or an old man.
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