# What cute/sappy names do you call your SO? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 3, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822 "2003-05-03T06:27:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/1 "2003-05-03T06:27:58Z")
As my SO and I were having this discussion the other day, it brought up an interesting point. Where do you cross the line from being cute to inducing nausea? What about from endearing to condescending? What is your favorite? Least favorite? For me, I like the more original ones, but nothing along the lines of, say, “pookie snoogums,” which a relative of mine likes. Bleh! That’s what I might call my dog when being affectionate, not for human consumption! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Hand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mr.Hand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Hand)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/2 "2003-05-03T06:29:12Z")
I confess: I have referred to a (now-ex) SO as “pookie bottom.” Repeatedly. For the record, I dumped her. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/3 "2003-05-03T06:35:51Z")
I’m not into pet names. Sometimes I use honey or baby (imitating Bruce Campbell, of course). The only really unique nicknames I use are imitation German, since she speaks it and I don’t. You know, “schveetencaken,” “smuchenkissen,” stuff like that. When I do that, she usually calls me goober. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/4 "2003-05-03T08:12:17Z")
Senior year in high school, my girlfriend called me “Thrash” and I called her “Spike.” We made everyone around us sick. (curse you all for making me remember that) Junior year at University, one of my roommates and his girl called each other “Boo” constantly. I never thought of a good line to shut them up. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/5 "2003-05-03T09:43:59Z")
Can’t believe you actually started a thread about this, _lekker ding_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/6 "2003-05-03T10:55:26Z")
God, I’m horrible about pet names. Everything from honey to sugar to baby to boo is used in my house on a regular basis. It’s so bad, AAMOF, that I sometimes stumble over my wife’s actual name on the rare occasion I have to use it. As for the most original, I called her “Pot Pie” for months, which I then shortened to “Pie”. :o The shame. The _horror_ . 😛 ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/7 "2003-05-03T10:58:13Z")
sugar britches and monkey face. now my CAT…that’s where it starts gettin’ a little scary. _looks around furtively_… **hardcore** calls mrs. hardcore “wifey poo.” HAHAHAHAHAHA (Dodge that one, Dad!!! =P=P=P!!!) ---
**Author:** ![phraser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@phraser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phraser)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/8 "2003-05-03T11:04:40Z")
Well… I called my ex Bear, which she loved, and sweetheart, which I loved and she tolerated. If I wanted to get a rise out of her, I called her princess (I only did that if she called me Sweet Cheeks, which i loathed). She mostly just called me lover or my love. My current calls me hon or occasionally honeybun _wince_ I prefer it when she sticks to boy, or just my name. I call my current handsome, sexy or _sigh_ hon. Not very inventive, but I’ve never been able to understand the whole ‘pumpkin’, ‘muffin’, ‘pookywooky’ thing… ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/9 "2003-05-03T11:12:45Z")
Oh God. We have so many stupid names for each other. He called me “sweetpea” for a while…it got shortened to P. He also decided I looked like a hobbit…and called me Bubba Boakins…now shortened to Mrs B. I call him Bubbeh or Bubs, plus lots of Baby, Sweetie or RyRy. We nauseate pretty much everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/10 "2003-05-03T13:54:52Z")
My ex was Zebra. Don’t ask. Everything was zebras. The Happy Zebra, Mega Zebra, and Xeeb (just for pronunciation) In fact, if something was good, it was zebrific. Yes, I scared myself for a while there. We had some other really, really bad ones for a while…some that make me nauseous just thinking about: Glow bug, (believe it or not: Glow Zebra was eventually evolved) snow bug, Snuggle bear, Snugglupogus, and she’d call me “Snuggie” when she wanted to piss me off. My fiancee and I just stick to hon, or honey…I call her sweetie from time to time. Life is much more sane. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/11 "2003-05-03T15:00:38Z")
Pips. I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/12 "2003-05-03T15:36:32Z")
I call him sugarbee. He’ll call me duckydoodle, or wuvvedest widdle wuv, or (more often) “you.” “Duckydoodle” came from a 1930s valentine; I have no idea where I got “sugarbee.” ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/13 "2003-05-03T17:00:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*Can’t believe you actually started a thread about this, _lekker ding_. 😉 \*\* “Tasty thing” is a nickname? Somehow I think it loses it in the translation 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/14 "2003-05-03T17:48:53Z")
Yeah, it does, as the word “lekker” can mean a lot of things. Tasty, for food. Pleasant, for the weather. Sexy, for a woman. But in this case, it’s a combination of all three meanings. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/15 "2003-05-03T17:49:45Z")
“Baby”, “Honey”, and the occasional “Sweety”. I use Sweety quite a lot for people other than my SO, so that most likely doesn’t count. I just call her Jenn and she calls me Robert (not Rob, and she is the only one who doesn’t call me Rob. Weird.) I did call her Snookums once, but she shot me a look that melted butter from 20 paces. Not good. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/16 "2003-05-03T21:14:57Z")
I still call my wife Princess a lot. When we first dated, she called me angel. I guess my wings fell off soon after 'cause she hasn’t called me that in years. ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/17 "2003-05-03T21:21:08Z")
Petal or Pet or Pettie. We sometimes even say it when we’re really annoyed with each other, too! ---
**Author:** ![Omorka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Omorka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omorka)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/18 "2003-05-03T22:16:16Z")
The only pet names I have for the Spouse are “Spouse” and “Lovemylove.” I call him both of those in public places, which confuses passers-by. Another couple we used to game with also calls each other “Spouse,” which we all thought was rather amusing. I actually have names for most of the important people I’ve loved. My first True Love is “the Imzadi,” although usually not to his face - he lives in another state. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_On_My_Sleeve)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/19 "2003-05-03T22:33:52Z")
I love this thread, ya’ll are so cleva– For my hubby: (Boo or Schmoo)bear (Boo or Schmoo)berry Bunny Bunnybuns Babs Lover Hubby Bubby His for me: 1st 4 above, HONEY (especially when we’re arguing) Shinin’ Eyes (no, he’s not Irish) I think that’s mostly it. But don’t get me started on my cats. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822/20 "2003-05-03T22:43:23Z")
I call my wife chicken butt. It doesn’t get the response I’m looking for. Hmmmm. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cute-sappy-names-do-you-call-your-so/172822.md?page=2)