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Nudnik - Pesty nagger, nuisance, a bore, obnoxious person. (The Agira Glossary of Yiddish Expressions)
This is endearment? Oi vei! (How's the spelling now?)
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Just add ku (my) to the end of the person's name. So, Candiku.
Indonesian also has
sayang (usually translated darling but also means unfortunately)abbreviated to just 'yang;
kasih (or more commonly kasihku (my love)its derivative kasihan means poor little thing, aaaaaaah).
manis (literally sweet).
There's also the word jodoh. Jodoh is serious stuff, this is the one fate destined you for. Lonely hearts ads are iklan jodoh. I don't think you'd actually call anyone jodoh, though.
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I like to do variations on the standard ones. I went through a Honey stage: Honey bran muffin, honey bunch, honey bunches of oats (that is a breakfast cereal), honey pie (Beatles tune). There are others but they are so goofy that I don't think my honey wants you to hear them!  
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Speaking of variations, my almost-6-year-old niece has the oddest "term" of endearment I've ever heard -- she changes the last syllable in the thing she loves' name to "-is" (or occasionally adds -is on to the end of the name). Thus her cat Hunter becomes Huntis and my daughter is Abigailis. No idea where she picked it up from, but my wife and I have picked it up from her.
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Dear Flatlanis,
Ya' think it might have any connection to "Beavis and Buttheadis"?
Best regards,
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In the spirit of the season:
<www.mcny.org/luv17.htm>
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My ex-husband used to claim that "gorda" was a term of endearment and indeed many parents call their children "gorda/o" and I have actually heard spouses use it as well, but all I could ever hear was "fatty" when he called me "gorda". [A little cross-cultural sensitivity no-no-e]  . Another of his favorites, "vieja", meaning "old lady", was one I could tolerate a little better. I much prefered "querida" or "mi amor".
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Dear Ed (May I call you that, Mr. Ed U. Gator?),
Good heavens--now, I can get pretty doggoned sentimental, but what your link has is too saccharine even for me:
Inscription:
To my lovey-dovey
on Valentine's Day
Inside:
To My lovey-dovey
You're my LOVEY-DOVEY,
You're my SUGAR PIE,
You're my SNOOKY-OOKUMS
over whom I sigh
You're my TOOTSY-WOOTSY,
You're my HONEY BEE,
You're my DUCKY-WUCKY
You're the world to me.
You're my PRECIOUS PUMPKIN,
You're my SUGAR LUMP,
You're my ACE of ACES,
Whenever HEARTS are TRUMP.
I LOVE YOU
By the way, for you and all other newcomers: here's how to make a link immediately clickable in your post (this saves time copying and pasting), except--put URL where I use XYZ (yes, capitalize)--if I used the correct cue, you wouldn't see it, just as you didn't see my cues to begin and end the italics. [XYZ]http://www.mcny.org/luv17.htm[/XYZ]. If this doesn't work, you have probably typed [[, [}, or perhaps omitted the / to end it.
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No, you don't have to capitalize url.. lower cases work fine
but Jackie has repeated my mistake.. don't include the http://-- your url should just be the www.wordsmith.org the url command automatically add http:// so if you add it, the url doesn't work (and Jackie knows that, because i have made that mistake more than once, and each time she has kindly redone my url! )
the FAQ has this information, and plenty more, if you print the whole FAQ, is is only 4 pages.. and it is easier to read and reference in hard copy. for a cart load of tips and tricks, find a Post by Max, and click on his signature.. he has a web page with links, and all the good stuff we have found, like list of on line dictionaries, reference books and the like.
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Helen, good point on printing out our Helpful Hints--I hadn't thought of that. I've sometimes thought it might be a little daunting, seeing all that material, pertinent though it is. On the http bit: I think I've gotten it to work with ONE http://. But for some reason, if I put the [url] on one line, but the actual address goes to the next, for some reason it then comes out with TWO http's, and that won't work, I do know. So even if I only have one word on my last line, now I put the [url] on the next. And thanks for the reminder about lower case--lost my mind, I reckon!
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