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What is "pet name"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pet name
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Derwin has pet names for all his employees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had never called her by her family pet name, Fifi, even when she lived at home.
▪ It's only a pet name for Henry.
▪ Some Floozy Named Flo: he even had a pet name for her.
Wiktionary
pet name

n. A nickname, especially a name used by those in love with one another.

WordNet
pet name

n. a name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix); "`Billy' is a hypocorism for `William'" [syn: hypocorism]

Wikipedia
Pet name (disambiguation)

Pet name may refer to:

  • Hypocorism, the shorter or diminutive form of a word or given name
  • a name given to a non-human animal
  • Petname, a security-enhancing software naming system

Usage examples of "pet name".

In the years that followed that second christening, many changes had taken place in her that made the pet name incongruous.

Our databanks here at THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PETS show that it is time for your [pet type =] GOLDFISH, [pet name #1=] HYDE and [pet name #2=] ZEKE to receive their annual [treatment #1=] RABIES SHOTS and [treatment #2=] HOOF CLEANING.

It first flew in 1952 and soon got a pet name from its looks: big, ugly, and fat.

He used the pet name that had stuck after a woman in his housing complex had coined it.

Long past any shadow of jealousy, Dominic chuckled at the pet name.