liefling

noun

1. One held as lief or dear; a darling.

   'Really, liefling?' she says. Tell me what happened.'

Where it comes from

Equivalent to lief + -ling (compare darling = dear + -ling), perhaps from or modelled after Afrikaans liefling (“darling”), German Liebling (“darling”). Compare also loveling.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry liefling (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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