# Wallace & Gromit: "Chuck"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 9, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-chuck/127690 "2002-09-09T17:54:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-chuck/127690/1 "2002-09-09T17:54:18Z")
What’s up with the use of the expression, “Chuck,” in Wallace & Gromit cartoons? I, myself was at first only aware of Wendolene apparently calling Wallace “Chuck” at the end of “A Close Shave,” but a quick web search has turned up dozens of cloned fansites that all say that “Chuck” is one of Wallace’s favorite expressions. Buh? What does this mean, this, this … Chuck? ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-chuck/127690/2 "2002-09-09T18:00:29Z")
From Webster’s Date: 1595 – used as an endearment ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-chuck/127690/3 "2002-09-09T18:27:05Z")
**Lyllyan** has it. It’s like saying “love” or “dear” but not gender-specific (or if it is, it’s more likely to be said by a woman to a man, usually an older woman). ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-chuck/127690/4 "2002-09-09T18:32:18Z")
One of my housemates in England used the term a lot. It’s kind of like saying “thanks, hon” here. It’s a term of endearment that you can use with people who aren’y your SO. ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-chuck/127690/5 "2002-09-09T18:35:15Z")
Really? Hmmm, I analyzed it as ‘choke’ as in a verbalization of the action of choking. I guess I was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-chuck/127690/6 "2002-09-09T20:15:00Z")
It’s also used in _The Wrong Trousers_, where Wallace happily says to Gromit, “Happy birthday, chuck!” ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-chuck/127690/7 "2002-09-09T22:50:57Z")
How about that. And I always thought that “Chuck” (Charles) was his given name, and “Wallace” was his surname. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wallace-gromit-chuck/127690/8 "2002-09-10T01:23:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by burundi \* > \*\*One of my housemates in England used the term a lot. It’s kind of like saying “thanks, hon” here. It’s a term of endearment that you can use with people who aren’y your SO. \*\* Hmm, let me guess - she was from somewhere between Oldham and Ashton-under-Lyne yeah?