# Help me think up a nickname **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 28, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083 "2011-10-28T16:03:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![taffygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@taffygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taffygirl)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/1 "2011-10-28T16:03:18Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/2 "2011-10-28T16:04:49Z")
How about Beefcake? ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/3 "2011-10-28T16:08:06Z")
Cheddarmelt? Taffy apple? Sweetie Pie? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/4 "2011-10-28T16:10:53Z")
Skippy…as in the peanut butter. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/5 "2011-10-28T16:13:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/6 "2011-10-28T16:39:06Z")
> [@taffygirl](#): > > 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? 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. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/7 "2011-10-28T17:03:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/8 "2011-10-28T17:21:23Z")
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](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/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.” ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/9 "2011-10-28T17:25:11Z")
Muffin. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/10 "2011-10-28T17:41:44Z")
Babyckaes (which are, after all, what cupcakes are, nes pas?) Fetus Head Meat and Two Veg ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/11 "2011-10-28T17:57:20Z")
Bubbles. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/12 "2011-10-28T18:09:42Z")
Think Costanza… T-Bone! ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/13 "2011-10-28T18:34:45Z")
I’ve always been fond of Puddin’. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/14 "2011-10-28T19:17:36Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > Muffin. 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). ---
**Author:** ![loshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/15 "2011-10-28T20:09:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/16 "2011-10-28T20:40:01Z")
Hummentash (sp?) ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/17 "2011-10-28T20:52:16Z")
This is really hard considering we don’t know squat about the guy, but here’s my contribution: Crunchberry. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/18 "2011-10-28T22:51:32Z")
Punkin ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/19 "2011-10-28T23:09:50Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > Think Costanza… > > T-Bone! That’s what I came in to post. OK, well, now I’ll have to suggest Koko. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083/20 "2011-10-29T00:20:05Z")
Boo boo kitty fuck? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-think-up-a-nickname/601083.md?page=2)