So, tired of calling my husband “boss”, “chief”, “state comptroller”, “schatz” and “liebchen”, I’m looking for some new and different terms of endearment:
SPECIFICALLY (just to keep this thread under 1,000 pages), terms of endearment in other languages.
I’d love to hear some different German ones (of course), also Dutch or Russian, but lord knows I’m not going to sneeze at portuguese.
My SO calls me “Il Duce” when I’m feeling full of myself. Or sometimes “Benito”. On these occasions, I obligingly adopt an upright pose, and raise my hands as if greeting the masses from my balcony.
More normally though, I’m either an animal or a food product. Some samples:
Sweet Amphibian
Toad
Hairy Dinner Roll
I call her “Squid”. Don’t ask. I don’t even think I remember how we came up with that one.
Mon petit chou (my little cabbage), is for some reason considered charming.
Kara is Esperanto for “dear”.
Vi estas mia kara kaj mia kora kaj la lumo de mia vivo kaj la trezoro de mia animo.
(You are my darling and my dear and the light of my life and the treasure of my soul.)
Hubby calls me “Lil’ bit” or ‘Sprite.’ I call him sweetie, or Bishop (he looks a bit like Lance Henrikson). But I’m thinking you want something a little more masculine. And in that case, you can’t go wrong with Latin!!