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pet name

pet name noun: a nickname, especially a name used by those in love with one another.

Noun

pet name (plural pet names)

  1. A nickname, especially a name used by those in love with one another.
    • My boyfriend won't let me call him by his pet name, Pookie, in public.
    Synonyms:
    hypocorism, nickname
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pet, name.

pet name meaning in Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati and Malay

pet name in Telugu

pet name, nickname
ముద్దుపేరు muddupēru

pet name in Malayalam

affectionate name, term of endearment, endearment
ചെല്ലപ്പേര്, ഓമനപ്പേര്, വാത്സല്യപ്പേര്, പുന്നാരപ്പേര്, ചെറുപ്പേര്, വാത്സല്യപൂർവ്വം വിളിക്കുന്ന പേര്

pet name in Gujarati

name of endearment
ઘરનું નામ gharnũ nām

pet name in Malay

name of endearment
nama timang-timangan, nama manja

Synonyms of pet name

Forms of pet name

pluralpet names
alternative formpetname

Questions about pet name

What does pet name mean?
Pet name means a nickname, especially a name used by those in love with one another.
What is pet name in Telugu?
Pet name in Telugu is ముద్దుపేరు (muddupēru). See Pet name meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is pet name?
Pet name is a noun.
What is the plural of pet name?
The plural of pet name is pet names.

Words near pet name in the dictionary

  1. pet hotels
  2. pet humanization
  3. pet insurance
  4. pet lamp-shade
  5. pet lamp-shades
  6. pet name
  7. pet names
  8. pet peeve
  9. pet peeves
  10. pet phrase
  11. pet phrases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pet name (page history and authors); ముద్దుపేరు (Telugu) (page history and authors); pet name (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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