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darling
noun- used both as a general and a theatrically arch form of address UK, 1933
In 1979 Beale noted: [I]t is used in address as indiscriminately as the Londoner’s “Love” or Durham “Flower”. - When did we start calling people “darling”? I can remember finding it impossible. It was a word your parents used for each other. I could say “man” and “babe”, but not “darling”. And now I can’t stop saying it. Darling, darling, darling, darling[.] — Jennifer Saunders, Absolutely Fabulous, p. 128, 1992
- Everything all right, darlings? — Kevin Sampson, Powder, p. 21, 1999
- used as a term of address between male homosexuals US
- Darling–Meaningless vocative loosely used in “bitchy” conversation. — Anon., The Gay Girl’s Guide, p. 6, 1949
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