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term of endearment
phrase
a kind or friendly name to call someone: 昵称
It was certainly meant as a term of endearment.
I try to use the patient's name rather than a general term of endearment.
My mother always used 'bear' as a term of endearment for me because I was a rather large baby.
Both words are now used as terms of endearment.
It's not appropriate for the president to be using a term of endearment to address a reporter.
See also
termnoun(EXPRESSION)
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