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prettikins

noun

Etymology

From pretty + -kins.

  1. inherited from *prattugaz✻ — “boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”
  2. inherited from *prattug✻
  3. inherited from prættiġ — “tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”
  4. inherited from prety
  5. suffixed as prettikins — “pretty + kins”

Definitions

  1. Affectionate term of address to a person who is pretty.

    • "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.
    • “Not you, prettikins, him.” He pointed at Marston.
    • “Trust me, prettikins, not much in this world can resist my embrace.”

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA