prettikins

English

Etymology

pretty +‎ -kins

Noun

prettikins (plural prettikins)

  1. (colloquial) Affectionate term of address to a person who is pretty.
    • 1999, Weekly World News, volume 20, number 48, page 9:
      "I took my cat, Prettikins, to three vets who told me her urinary tract infection had progressed too far and there was nothing they could do," says widowed grandmother Allyson Taivor.
    • 2007, Richard A. Lupoff, The Compleat Ova Hamlet, page 234:
      “Not you, prettikins, him.” He pointed at Marston.
    • 2013, Robin Wayne Bailey, Dragonkin:
      “Trust me, prettikins, not much in this world can resist my embrace.”
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