snookums

Main Entry:  snookums
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  sweetheart; a term of endearment
Usage:  informal
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Word Origin & History

snookums
trivial term of endearment, 1919, from Snooks, proper name used in Britain for "a hypothetical person" (1860), cf. Joe Blow in U.S. As an actual proper name, Snooks sates back to the Domesday Book and may be from O.E. *snoc "a projecting point of land" (perhaps here with sense of "a big nose").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Snookums is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Slang Dictionary

snookums definition

[ˈsnʊkəmz] or [ˈsnukəmz]
  1. n.
    a nickname for a child or a lover. (Also a term of address.) : Now, now, snookums, it's all right.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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