loveys

Noun

lovey (plural loveys)

1. (UK) An informal mode of address (associated most often with actors and the like).
   • “Now, my lovey, eat it up like a good girl,” said nurse, setting her lips in a way that Bertha knew, and that meant she had come into the nursery at another wrong moment.1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 118
2. A baby's toy, blanket, or other object of affection.
   • Young children need to have certain love objects or “loveys” such as teddy bears around all the time.1987, Kathryn Castle, The Infant & Toddler Handbook: Invitations for Optimum Early Development