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Where does the term 'snookums' come from?

Question #86105. Asked by zbeckabee.
Last updated Sep 06 2021.

voltaire11
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snookums -
Trivial term of endearment, 1919, from Snooks, proper name used in Britain for "a hypothetical person" (1860), cf. Joe Blow in U.S. As an actual proper name, Snooks sates back to the Domesday Book and may be from O.E. *snoc "a projecting point of land" (perhaps here with sense of "a big nose").

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Response last updated by CmdrK on Sep 06 2021.
Sep 20 2007, 2:04 AM
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