precious
This word was discussed briefly in the may/might thread. OP Tipping (and presumably the rest of Australia) uses it to mean darling, quaint - in the North East of England it means sulky.Any other...
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uses it to mean darling, quaint I'm wondering if that is the sense of the golem's repeated "my precious" [referring to the Ring] in The Lord of the Rings.
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In Southern England too it means darling, quaint, as in the Wodehousian Too too precious, my dear!.
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Ach, der golem, precioussss... Tolkien's text implies that Gollum's 'precious' is addressed both to himself and the Ring - a warped love, rather than quaint.
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