# Most obnoxious terms of endearment **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 14, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049 "2004-07-14T11:50:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/1 "2004-07-14T11:50:03Z")
I nominate three: Honey Bunny Sugar Booger Schmoopy Poopy ---
**Author:** ![Bibliovore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/2 "2004-07-14T12:07:43Z")
Now, now, Coochy-buns, no need to get all stroppy. My little smoochy-kins! ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/3 "2004-07-14T12:15:12Z")
Awww what’s wrong with my little snugglesome-hugglesome ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/4 "2004-07-14T12:16:37Z")
My sweet stinking corpse lily ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/5 "2004-07-14T13:15:30Z")
Looks like you’ve got a problem with rhyming names there, **Liberal**. Looks like **kittenlm** and I are safe, then. She’s my Linnie The Pooh and I’m her Pauliebear. You folks may vomit when ready. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/6 "2004-07-14T13:45:55Z")
I’ve been known to call the missus: Funky-pie Butter-butt Monkey-lips Frog-lips Bunion But maybe that’s not what you meant? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/7 "2004-07-14T13:58:05Z")
I am an embarrassment to all halves of couples everywhere because of my endearments for my husband. It started as Pooh, then to Pooh Bear, then to Boo Bear, then to Booberry, and now he’s Ooberry. Yes, Ooberry. And yes, it _is_ embarrassing to call him that in public. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/8 "2004-07-14T14:26:10Z")
awww **Liberal** what’s wrong my little snuggy buggy snuggle wuggle? Does Does my widdle pookie wookie need a huggy wuggy? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/9 "2004-07-14T14:57:30Z")
What about Boo Boo Kitty F\*ck? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/10 "2004-07-14T15:19:17Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I nominate three: > > Honey Bunny > > Sugar Booger > > Schmoopy Poopy We were “Honey” and “Bunny” for a while. Until I slipped up and called him “Bunny” in front of a motorcycle club. Now we’re Girl Face and Boy Head. We soooooo suck. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/11 "2004-07-14T15:24:15Z")
My father calls my mother Fuzzy. She acquired this name after a bad perm. She’s had straight hair for going on 20 years now, but the name has stuck. And my grandfather calls my grandmother Toots. For some reason, it doesn’t seem offensive like it would if anyone else did that. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/12 "2004-07-14T15:27:04Z")
scum queen thunder thighs cum chugging road whore ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/13 "2004-07-14T15:41:46Z")
Snoogy. Snoogy-woogy. Snoogy-pie. Snoogums. Snoogilicious. Snoogus maximus. La Snoogidorea. Snoogenhaufen. And yet she still dates me… ---
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/14 "2004-07-14T16:25:07Z")
I believe that in the Andy Capp comic strip, he referred to the missus as “pet”. I tried that just once in fun. The sky grew dark, the wind picked up, animals were finding places to hide and my wife turned to me and said “don’t call me that.” Then the skies went back to sun and all was right in my world. I don’t have the guts to try that again. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/15 "2004-07-14T16:29:21Z")
Anything other than baby, sweetie, honey, and other basic terms annoy me. I hate diminutives. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/16 "2004-07-14T16:49:13Z")
Honey Bumpkin is the worst I know. Sickening and contains the word bum in it. ---
**Author:** ![praxim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@praxim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/praxim)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/17 "2004-07-14T16:54:12Z")
Mercury and I call each other “poop” and “turd.” I’m usually the turd and she’s the poop, the latter being more feminine-sounding. You don’t even want to know how it started, not that I can entirely remember. We tend to mix it up, adding to the names to get variants like “turdbutt” and “poopenstein 3D.” “Cum-chugging road whore,” though, wins my vote for “Pet Name of the Year.” ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/18 "2004-07-14T17:28:43Z")
I think Wubba was a pretty bad one. My high school boyfriend and I each called each other Wubba. Then there was snugglemuffins. SO humiliating. When a “friend” and I used to practice a bit of S/M, he would make me use the safeword “snugglemuffins,” because he knew I hated to say it and that I would wait until I absolutely HAD to. Then my favorite: SWEET MONKEY! That is the best name anyone has ever given me. (With a nod to the Prince of Weasels.) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RindaRinda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@RindaRinda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RindaRinda)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/19 "2004-07-15T00:57:26Z")
My husband gets a murderous glint in his eye when I call him “Sweetmeats.” ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049/20 "2004-07-15T01:52:38Z")
Sugar. Just plain Sugar. I think it’s most obnoxious. I hate it. If anyone ever calls me Sugar, the first thing I think of is Flo from that Alice sitcom, complete with snapping bubble gum. The hubby and I are **Tiger** and **Honeybear** FB [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-terms-of-endearment/255049.md?page=2)