In our texts we exchanged mutual endearments in words and emojis.
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Bae,” for example, is a term of endearment that is either short for “baby” or an acronym for “before anyone else.
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(She addresses me in various terms of endearment, as one would an old friend, and invites me to swim in her pool after lunch).
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“The thing that pops into my head is the Shirley MacLaine quote from Terms of Endearment,” said Emmerich.
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Terms of Endearment got made because Polly Platt was so persistent.
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My mom remembers us actually watching Terms of Endearment with my father when he was sick.
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Now, clean-ness, or neat-ness, is one of the elements that make hypocoristic terms (or terms of endearment) applicable.
Opuscula|Robert Gordon Latham
Without knowing why, she felt an instinctive repugnance to this stranger, notwithstanding her words of endearment.
Jack's Ward|Horatio Alger, Jr.
"Oh, it is just a term of endearment," said a woman's voice in answer.
The Charm of Ireland|Burton Egbert Stevenson
How often when she slept had he heard those lips breathe his name with terms of endearment!
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"No, my precious one," I replied; I sometimes use terms of endearment to the members of my domestic circle.
Punch, or the London Charivari, January 12th, 1895|Various
British Dictionary definitions for endearment
endearment
/ (ɪnˈdɪəmənt) /
noun
something that endears, such as an affectionate utterance
the act or process of endearing or the condition of being endeared