What is another word for "pet"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "pet": address, adulator, after, apple, captain, child, claqueur, clawback, cosset, courtier, crony, darling, dear, dirty, doer, duck, earwig, encomiast, eulogist, eye, favorite, flaneur, flatterer, fondling, general, genus, hanger-on, heart, honey, idol, jewel, laudator, led, love, man, minion, moppet, mopsey, optimist, own.