pet name

1. 1.

   a name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix)

   “`Billy' is a hypocorism for `William'”

   Synonymshypocorism

   Broadername

Questions about pet name

What does pet name mean?

pet name means "a name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix)".

What is another word for pet name?

Close synonyms include hypocorism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pet name a common word?

pet name is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.