pookie bear
- noun
- Baby Talk
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- Every time he came home, she greeted him with a hug and called him her pookie bear.
Examples
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He blushed when his girlfriend called him pookie bear in front of his friends.
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Don't be upset, pookie bear, everything will be okay.
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I love you, my pookie bear!
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She called him her pookie bear.
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Every time he came home, she greeted him with a hug and called him her pookie bear.
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I love you, my pookie bear!
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He blushed when his girlfriend called him pookie bear in front of his friends.
Synonyms
4
9.9
A friendly, playful name you use for someone you love
2
9.1
A loving nickname for a child or someone you love
2
9.6
A loving nickname for a baby or someone you care for
1
9.5
A playful name people use for a child or pet
1
9.9
Playful name for a child, partner or close friend
A loving nickname used for a person or pet
A person someone loves and finds cute
How Affectionate
- Informal
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1.0
- Informal
∞
1.0
- Baby Talk
- Informal
4
9.9
- Informal
11
2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
This expression is a straightforward composition of a pet name ('pookie') and an animal term ('bear'); if a learner knows that 'pookie' is an informal petname and 'bear' the animal, they can infer it functions as an affectionate term. Using animal names with pet‑names to signal endearment is common across languages, so the meaning is transparently derived from the constituents.
Etymology
Pookie bear may come from baby talk and the picture of a soft animal: pookie is a sweet, silly sound for a little loved one, and bear suggests something big and cuddly you hug. So people use pookie bear as a pet name for 'someone you love'.