Meaning of caressing name | Babel Free

Definitions

A name or nickname used to express affection, especially to a child, parent, or other loved one.

archaic

Examples

“Robin’s Young Chevalier diligently filled the glass of Charles’s Greysteel,—such were their old caressing names for each other […]”

““Mother,” said he, after a pause, coming nearer […] “mammy darling,” said he, using the caressing name⟳, which he had been trying to drop as not sufficiently manly”

“1866, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Birds of Prey, Book 3, Chapter 4, in Belgravia, February, 1867, p. 395, Miss⟳ Halliday consented to call⟳ her mother’s husband “Papa,” though the caressing name⟳ seemed in a manner to stick⟳ in her throat.”

“1923, Ernest Jones, “The Theory of Symbolism” in Papers on Psycho-Analysis, New York: William Wood, p. 142, […] the four ideas that keep⟳ recurring in connection with the name⟳ ‘punchinello’ are (1) a caressing name⟳ for male offspring, equivalent to ‘little man’ […]”

“She would call⟳ me by caressing names, she would talk⟳ to me about my dear Mamma and my little brothers and sisters […]”

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