Names Of Love

[scotrace]

Sure, people can refer to their Significant other (or close friend or family member) by a gutter term and call it an endearment. But not people I'd hang out with for more than a few minutes.


So what are the cute, fun, loving terms you use to refer to those close to you?



I once made up "Sugarmoops" for someone. Maybe that's why it didn't last.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Sure, people can refer to their Significant other (or close friend or family member) by a gutter term and call it an endearment. But not people I'd hang out with for more than a few minutes.


So what are the cute, fun, loving terms you use to refer to those close to you?


I once made up "Sugarmoops" for someone. Maybe that's why it didn't last.

Can I call you stressycakes?

 

[scotrace]

Can I call you stressycakes?

 

[imoldfashioned]

I call my friends all sorts of nicknames--sweetie, dear, dearie, darling, doll, dollface and various permutations thereof.

My grandfather used to call me Lulubelle. I have no idea why, but I liked it!

 

[Paisley]

I tolerate "Darlin'" from my mother. (It makes me cringe to write the word.)

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Thats a 'no' then, Mr. Grouchypants? lol

 

[Starius]

I have a cat named Pumpkin but I often refer to her as "Little Miss Baggypants" (because of her long hair), does that count?

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Reminds me of that Monty Python skit.
"May I call you Eddie-baby?"

 

[LizzieMaine]

My grandmother always called my grandfather "you old goat," to which he would always smile and say "Winnie, yer still the prettiest girl in Belfast. Now why don't you go back there?"

We weren't much for sweetie-peetie stuff in my family...

 

[Lady Day]

I call my dog Georgia snickerdoodle

LD

 

[olive bleu]

my adolescent boys are "Birdie" and "Porkpie".They LOVE it when i call them that in front of their friends

 

[dashiell]

When speaking to someone older than I am who I happen to be quite fond of, I use "Aunt" or "Uncle". Near my own age, I use "Sister" or "Brother". For the severely young, when I am truly fond of them, I will use "Young Mistress" or "Young Master" for the sole reason that someone called me that when I was a child when teasing me about the books I liked to read and was dismayed when I approved.

I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones I use most often.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

You need to find one of Perry in his first-season-only porkpie.

 

[LizzieMaine]

There's a classic Golden Era radio program called "Vic and Sade," in which the title characters, a pair of Midwestern small-town types, referred to their teenage son Rush by such names as:

Stove Poker
Bucket Lid
Pocket Watch
Soda Fountain
Paper Weight
Harriet
Horse Chestnut
Stone Bruise
Two-Car Garage
Coal Scuttle
Margaret
Walnut Stain
Sleeve Garter
Melon Seed
Doctor Sleech
Broom Stick
Dish Water

-- and dozens and dozens of others. Why not try some of these on your own youngsters?

 

[HadleyH]

Sweetie Pie

Adorable Little Piglet


plus ten million others...

 

[Harp]

You need to find one of Perry in his first-season-only porkpie.

...when I was in law school, and tempted to cut lectures,
I thought about all those Perry Mason episodes I saw on TV
as a kid, and dutifully went....

 

[Dixon Cannon]

How 'bout...

Sweet Bird of Paradox !

-dixon cannon

 

[Nashoba]

for a lot of my friends I tend to call them by the first letter of their name. Heather becomes H. Karla becomes K.. you get the idea

the other nickname I use is Cricket. But I won't say for who

 

[scotrace]

I like the one from Seinfeld: "Schmoopie."

 

[Elaina]

I call my son Case-face (his name's Casey), Wrong Honey, the other Honey, in referring to the general Honey, Kid, cutie, baby and the ever present wow, you're short, ugly and your momma dressed you funny. When he's sick, I use the sappy sugar and sweetie pie. He's not liking the nick names, aside from Case-face and hey ugly now, but that's life with an 8 year old boy.

My husband calls me all kinds of things. Honey, mostly, and so much so, when I talk to my sister in law that's in a home for MD paitents she can only get out Honey, and truth be told, I tell the nursing staff that's who I am, because she knows who I am immediately. I tend to call him Honey or by Mr and our last name in private.

My sister calls me "Sissy" and for the record, I don't look like a Sissy in any aspect of the word and I call my Hell's Angel biker, tattooed man of a brother "Kevie", and am the only one that can. I've got a twinkie, munchie, pumpkin, girl, Daisy and every one of my 4 sisters names in my repoitre of nicknames and I think it may be why I don't do them often.