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This article is about the phrase. For the film, see Terms of Endearment. For other uses, see Terms of Endearment (disambiguation). 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 ...
"Mavourneen" is a term of endearment derived from the Irish Gaelic mo mhuirnín, meaning "my beloved". The Irish soprano Catherine Hayes (1818–1861)—the first Irish woman to sing at La Scala in Milan—learned "Kathleen Mavourneen" while training in Dublin.
"Look at thon blade" – "Look at that girl"; "Our blade" – "My sister/cousin" (Can also be used as a term of endearment in this form) boak, boke: to retch/vomit, vomit verb noun: From Scots bowk. [18] bog: wetland/toilet noun: From Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach meaning "wetland". boggin/bogging: disgusting, ugly or otherwise generally ...
-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]
-uccio, -uccia, similar to -ello/-ella, -etto/-etta and -ino/-ina, it is generally a loving, benign, courtesy, or affectionate diminutive suffix: tesoro→tesoruccio (literally "treasure," but used as an Italian term of endearment → little treasure), amore → amoruccio (Amore literally means "love", but it is often used to affectionately ...
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.
A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address and/or describe a person or animal for which the speaker feels love or affection. Terms of Endearment may also refer to: Terms of Endearment, by Larry McMurtry, 1975 Terms of Endearment, a film based on the novel, 1983; Terms of Endearment (play), a stage play adapted from the novel
In the late 19th century, Russian Marxists and other leftist revolutionaries adopted the word "tovarisch" (Russian: товарищ) as a translation for the German term Kamerad. Originally, "tovarisch" meant "business companion" or "travel (or other adventure) mate" deriving from the Old Turkic tavar ishchi ; abbreviated tov. , and related to ...