# Original pet-names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2002, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235 "2002-09-30T12:58:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/1 "2002-09-30T12:58:18Z")
Getting tired of the same old Honey, Sweetie and Darling, and wondering if you clever people can come up with some unusual pet names. They can be for SOs, offspring, friends, employers, actual pets, or anyone else - it’s up to you. A word of warning: For those who think they have a great pet name for their boss, “Ass-Bastard McTurdpants” is not a pet name. Let the mushiness begin! Kn(call me Ishamel)ckers ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/2 "2002-09-30T12:59:20Z")
Dagnabbit, it’s IshMAEL!!! That’ll teach me to proofread. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/3 "2002-09-30T13:52:55Z")
My ex-wife liked being called “Baby Toad.” The pet name had no meaning; I just combined the two words and arbitrarily said it would be her pet name (with her permission). ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/4 "2002-09-30T14:11:07Z")
When DrJ’s stepping over the line, I usually threaten to call him Snuggle Bunny until he behaves. Do threats count as pet names? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/5 "2002-09-30T14:29:55Z")
Our’s morph. We’ll go from sweetie to sweets to switters to switzers to god knows what. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/6 "2002-09-30T15:00:04Z")
I had a cat at one point in time called Vaska (it sounds like Waxa). It’s Russian for black shoe polish. The ex, who still has the cat is Russian and wanted to name the cat since it was compleatly black. I think that’s how you spell it anyway, I never had to. ---
**Author:** ![tritone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@tritone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tritone)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/7 "2002-09-30T15:00:24Z")
Here are a few of mine: [ul] [li]from an old group of friends, **Ribena** (short for Ribena Berry)[/li][li]from my ex-boyfriend, **Heffalump** [/li][li]from my dad and my cousin, **Bood** (originally it was Boodlebum, but fortunately it’s been shortened).[/li][/ul] I also have a friend whom I call **Smurf**. The reasoning behind this is that said friend and I had a brief fling a little while back, and I just happened to have a box of coloured condoms in my bathroom cupboard, and for some reason a high proportion of them turned out to be, well, blue… I think I’d better shut up now 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/8 "2002-09-30T17:03:12Z")
My last dog was named Kela… no not after tequila… just seemed to fit her. Had a tortoise shelled kitty I named Kamiko (Kami for short), Japanese for ‘daughter of the tortoise’. Had another kitty given to me after a hawk stole its sibling. Named him Tuttle (Tut, or as he preferred King Tut) after the Tuttle Comet that I saw that night. Have had lots of animals growing up but these were the ones to come to mind that were ‘different’… Had my share of Smokey’s, Midnight’s, Taffy’s… etc… Usually if you look at a critter long enough, it will tell you it’s name… Odd I know… Perhaps it’s just me… Honest, it works… ::wanders off whistling the Dr Doolittle theme…:: ---
**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/9 "2002-09-30T17:30:27Z")
I’m Hooney, which is a cross between Calhoun and Honey. My kid is Boardboy, Gickie, Little Bob and Sonny-boy. ---
**Author:** ![TheOtherOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@TheOtherOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOtherOne)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/10 "2002-09-30T17:49:51Z")
My nickname is DeBlah blah, or just blah. It sounds like my last name, and I talk alot… My old dogs name was Prissy, because she was, and my old cats name was Kidney bean, because of her markings. ---
**Author:** ![ghandi5569](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@ghandi5569](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghandi5569)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/11 "2002-09-30T17:57:19Z")
I call the boy a lot of names. Mainly “Pineapple Butt.” He calls me crazy. I have a lot of names for my neighbor and vice versa. (We’ve been friends since high school, so it’s not like I haven’t known her for, well, a long time.) I call her: Pinky (The Pink Pants Pirate); Princess Francheska Ronaldi, Demigoddess of Small Woodland Creatures Who Are Horny; Lemur; Peabody; and Wedgie. She calls me: Evil Incarnate, Monkey, Crackwhore, Minx, Poindexter, She Who Makes Furniture Go Boom (according to her that would be my Indian name), and Glowworm. I’m sure I use other pet names, but those are relatively tame. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/12 "2002-09-30T18:10:44Z")
Peanut Buttonwillow Puddin’ those are various names that have been bantered back & forth by me over the years. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/13 "2002-09-30T18:21:00Z")
I call **Washte** - who is my wife - _Minaw_ most of the time. It’s Romani, the closest English translation being “My darling”. I also call her _Wally-brain_ quite often too. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/14 "2002-09-30T19:21:13Z")
Our cat is named **Spud**. I won’t get into the story behind it. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/15 "2002-09-30T19:58:52Z")
I read in cosmo… (sorry, I work at a drg store and my evil manager decided that we can’t bring outside reading material in, but we can read what is already there. Plato’s Republic gets left at home, I read cosmo.) Anyway, the day before I read in cosmo that girls should only give their guy SOs “masculine” pet names, I had christened my SO _Chinchilla Head_. That’s macho, right? ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/16 "2002-09-30T20:16:19Z")
I call my wife Grace. People who hear me say it think I’m being sweet, but she knows it’s just a sarcastic commentary. She tends to be a bit klutzy. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/17 "2002-10-01T02:35:07Z")
I call my daughter pici sometimes. It’s pronounced peetsee. Hungarien for tiny. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/18 "2002-10-01T10:43:30Z")
uhhh… irishfella calls me Mrs Bubbeh Boakins or mrs b because if i was a hobbit that would be my name… apparently or sweetie p or p or whatever ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/19 "2002-10-01T11:00:35Z")
Pips, Pippy, Egg-lemon, Sacred Egg. ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235/20 "2002-10-01T12:23:34Z")
Pet, Petal, Petaleypoo, other gooey icky stuff. My daughter has the most interesting nicknames. Here’s the morph. Oong—\>Oongles----\>Miss Doongles-----\>Doongles------\>Moongly They constantly morph. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-pet-names/130235.md?page=2)