It’s not a romantic relationship and won’t be. He’s started calling me Cupcake. (It’s a joke–too long and dull to go into here.) I need a funny nickname to call him back, preferably food-related (though it doesn’t have to be if it just sounds funny), but not something sexually suggestive. I’m drawing a blank.
Any ideas?
How about Beefcake?
Cheddarmelt?
Taffy apple?
Sweetie Pie?
Skippy…as in the peanut butter.
Years ago I hung out with two guys my age. Another guy, much younger, was always tagging along. The young dude kept asking us to help him pick a nickname, since we all went by nicknames. We chose Jism.
From that day on, we called him by his new nickname.
Nicknames should be organic, much as your Cupcake name appears to be (if it involves a long dull story to explain).
Don’t force it.
A kid I went to school with, when he was a scraggly young freshman, someone called him “Barney Badass.” Just out of the blue.
From then on he was known as “Barney” even by the future generation of freshmen, 4 years later.
I think real names as nicknames are a hoot.
May not help at all, but after Brando had been in his first three movies he was prompted in an interview to comment, “I’ve played a cripple, a creep and a kreplach, and it’s time I did something else.”
I’m not sure of the connotations outside a Yiddish environment, but for years I used that term freely instead of others. It was particularly difficult to understand Brando’s point about “kreplach” when, best I could figure, it applied to his character in Viva Zapata!" I thought that was a cool dude!
You’re free to use it for your food-related nickname, even if you don’t know any more about its true meaning than I do. If it matters, I pronounced it “KREP-lock.”
Muffin.
Babyckaes (which are, after all, what cupcakes are, nes pas?)
Fetus Head
Meat and Two Veg
Bubbles.
Think Costanza…
T-Bone!
I’ve always been fond of Puddin’.
Bran muffin, to be exact. The food item generally resembles a cupcake, giving some parity to your nicknames for each other. The beauty is in the contrast, with cupcakes being sweet and delicious, where bran muffins seem rather ordinary and utilitarian (i.e., pretty girl vs. scruffy guy).
corn dog
pork chop (pronounced poke chawp)
Those are what I call my niece and nephew. Of course, at 5 and 8, they think it is hilarious.
Hummentash (sp?)
This is really hard considering we don’t know squat about the guy, but here’s my contribution: Crunchberry.
Punkin
That’s what I came in to post.
OK, well, now I’ll have to suggest Koko.
Boo boo kitty fuck?