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  2. Term of endearment - Wikipedia

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    Term of endearment. A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address or describe a person, animal or inanimate object for which the speaker feels love or affection. Terms of endearment are used for a variety of reasons, such as parents addressing their children and lovers addressing each other.

  3. Bae (word) - Wikipedia

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    Bae (/ beɪ / BAY) is a slang term of endearment, [1] primarily used among youth. It came into widespread use around 2013 and 2014 through social media and hip-hop and R&B lyrics. [2] The term originated as an abbreviation of the word baby or babe. [2][3][4][5] It has been suggested that the term originated as an acronym for "before anyone else ...

  4. Japanese honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Japanese honorifics. The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.

  5. Terms of Endearment - Wikipedia

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    Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American family tragicomedy [3] film directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks, adapted from Larry McMurtry 's 1975 novel of the same name. It stars Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. The film covers 30 years of the relationship between Aurora ...

  6. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    – F. Scott Fitzgerald This glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States is an alphabetical collection of colloquial expressions and their idiomatic meaning from the 1900s to the 1930s. This compilation highlights American slang from the 1920s and does not include foreign phrases. The glossary includes dated entries connected to bootlegging, criminal activities, drug usage ...

  7. Bubba - Wikipedia

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    Bubba, one of the protagonists of Redneck Rampage. Bubba, a giant fish in Super Mario 64. Bubba, one of Spunge's default names in My Singing Monsters. Bubba, one of the protagonists of the original Grand Theft Auto. Bubba Bubbaphant, one of the Smiling Critters who is a blue elephant from Poppy Playtime.

  8. ‘Terms of Endearment’ Turns 40: James L. Brooks Revisits ...

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    In “Terms of Endearment,” that dynamic sympathy especially extends to the emotionally unavailable men that Aurora Greenway (MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Debra Winger) find themselves drawn to.

  9. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    -ik (Belarusian, Polish, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian) It merely creates a noun in Slovak where -ik is a version of -ík, can be endearment, diminutive, have other meanings. [21]-ík It merely creates a noun and can also be endearment, diminutive, have other meanings; its other Slovak version is -ik. [21]