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diddums
noun- used by adults for soothing and consoling babies and very young children; hence, a childish endearment UK, 1893
- Aw diddums ... big boys shouldn’t cry. Only little girls cry. — Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger, p. 231, 2001
- used for offering heavily sarcastic mock-sympathy to an adult or older child and for deriding childish behaviour or for suggesting that such behaviour or attitude is childish UK, 1893
Adapted from the nonsense endearment used to soothe very young children. This nonsense is expandable: “diddums doodums dumpling den”. - Aw. bless. Poor diddums had suffered a spoiled Saturday night[.] — Christopher Brookmyre, Boiling a Frog, p. 375, 2000
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