snookums

snookums
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 dates 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").

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  • snookums — n Female term of endearment. Hello, snookums, how did your day go? 1910s …   Historical dictionary of American slang

  • snookums — noun A term of endearment, especially for a child …   Wiktionary

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  • snookums —    A nonsense word used in American slang to address a baby or pet animal. It is used as an endearment but has no precise meaning. There is a reference in Henry Williamson’s The Dream of Fair Women to a song that was popular in the nineteen… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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  • Gus Meins — est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste américain né le 6 mars 1893 à Los Angeles, Californie (États Unis), décédé le 1er août 1940 à La Crescenta (Californie). Sommaire 1 Biographie 2 Filmographie …   Wikipédia en Français

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