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diddums|ˈdɪdəmz|
Also didums.
[= did 'em, i.e. did they (tease you, etc.)?, with addition of plural s.]
An expression of commiseration addressed to a child and jocularly to an adult; hence used as a meaningless term of address to children, etc. Hence ˈdiddum v. trans. (rare), to say ‘diddums’ to.
1893E. F. Benson Dodo I. vii. 142 Women who were content to pore on their baby's face..saying ‘Didums’ occasionally. 1908Magnet I. 1, Poor little thing! He misses his mammy, you know! Diddums! 1926Spectator 1 May 795/1 On being ‘diddumed’ when sleeping..it [sc. a cat] opened its eyes crossly. 1928Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-Analysis IX. 17 Where an hysteric will spend endless time consciously rejecting, say, an obscene word, the obsessional will spend the same time in an agony of confusion over a simple nursery phrase, e.g. ‘Diddums’ or ‘Ducky’. 1928R. Macaulay Keeping Up Appearances viii, Sometimes they inquire..as to the past life in general of the object of their solicitude, as ‘Was he?’ or ‘Diddums?’ 1961M. Kelly Spoilt Kill ii. 109 Mr Luke gave it to me... That was his way of saying diddums to baby. 1970B. Turner Another Little Death iv. 31 ‘Diddums,’ I said soothingly, and booted him in the backside to land headlong at her feet. |