caressing name

== English == === Noun === caressing name (plural caressing names) (archaic) A name or nickname used to express affection, especially to a child, parent, or other loved one. Synonyms: pet name, term of endearment 1866, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Birds of Prey, Book 3, Chapter 4, in Belgravia, February, 1867, p. 395,[3] Miss Halliday consented to call her mother’s husband “Papa,” though the caressing name seemed in a manner to stick in her throat. 1923, Ernest Jones, “The Theory of Symbolism” in Papers on Psycho-Analysis, New York: William Wood, p. 142,[4] […] the four ideas that keep recurring in connection with the name ‘punchinello’ are (1) a caressing name for male offspring, equivalent to ‘little man’ […]