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snookums

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

snookums 
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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, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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