A name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix)
1The pet name is engraved only in the hearts of a few.
2Nobody else in the world ever called her by a pet name.
3Never before had the Indian pet name carried such significance as now.
4But for a journalist, it sounds too much like a pet name.
5She stiffened at the sound of the pet name, but continued on.
6So you know her already-andyou call her by her pet name?
7I'm after resarvin' me pet name for the use of me friends!
8And what was your pet name for him I wonder, eh, sly-boots?
9The young lady in question was called Bertha, that being her pet name.
10In the last letter you called Edmund Samurai, Ali's pet name for him.
11At the sound of my pet name I took courage again.
12Mons is a pet name applied to cats; like our tommy or pussy.
13Moti was the little Maharajah, and that was his pet name.
14Ani hugged her, barely resisting tears at the sound of the pet name.
15He used to call her by an odd pet name he had invented.
16Estelle had learnt to call Mrs. Wright by this pet name.
Translations for pet name