# What "pet" names do you call your significant other? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 16, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373 "2010-04-16T18:09:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/41 "2010-04-19T14:34:56Z")
> [@JpnDude](#): > > I’ve been calling her “Bella” since I moved to Japan in 1995. ". I love ‘Bella’ and I also love that L.G. Butts calls his wife ‘Beauty’. That’s just nice. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Walking\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@The\_Walking\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Walking_Dude)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/42 "2010-04-19T15:19:07Z")
On occasion she’ll call me Baron, and I really like it when she does. Usually, though, it is sweetie or honey. I have called her a lot of silly names over the years, but the only one that has really stuck is Hot-pants. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Nene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@El\_Nene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Nene)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/43 "2010-04-19T15:53:34Z")
I call my wife toots and chicken. I don’t remember how chicken came about but she liked it and now we have all kinds of chicken stuff at home (tea kettle, salt n pepper shaker, etc.). Her email address has chicken in it. When I’m in the mood to annoy her, I call her Al Qaeda. Her maiden name is Mohammed. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/44 "2010-04-19T16:31:53Z")
“Shmoopy” of course! In regular, everyday conversation it’s “babe” or “darling” for both of us. When I’m being sarcastic or mocking him for being English (which is often ) I call him “Nigel” or “your majesty”. It was about 2 1/2 years before I realized when he called me “me-JAY” he was actually calling me “midget” with a mock French accent, like when people pronounce Target as “tar-JAY”. Here I thought it was some romantical term of endearment. He then started calling me “frogmella” which I thought sounded cute and was maybe the name of a character out of one of his son’s cartoons. It most certainly is not and that name has been permanently retired. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/45 "2010-04-19T16:43:50Z")
I call him “Cookie”, or “Cookie froggie”. Don’t ask why. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/46 "2010-04-19T16:57:39Z")
My ex used to call me McClintock. That is neither my first nor last name, it’s not even close, I don’t know who McClintock is. Where did he get that from? I asked him and he didn’t really have an answer. I was programmed in his phone as McClintock. He was indeed a strange man. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/47 "2010-04-19T16:59:25Z")
I call her “angel,” “love,” and “sweetie,” in order of frequency. When the conversation is more narrative than amorous, I call her “girlfriend” (as in “Girlfriend, _tell me_ about it!”). Once I called her “Boo” and she looked at me quizzically. “Boo?” I think she hadn’t heard of that one before. Her favorite endearment for me is “babygirl.” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/48 "2010-04-19T20:38:57Z")
The last time I answered this question around here, I went for a joke and said “Godzilla.” This was a mistake. So now I answer “Light of my Life, Love of my heart, the Center of my existance.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/49 "2010-04-19T20:53:45Z")
I call her Piglet, Bob, Mausi, Mops, Stinky, Drippy and Spenser. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/50 "2010-04-19T21:01:02Z")
“Sweetie”, “Babybutt” and, on occasion, [“Miss Hottieknockers”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=528964). I generally call The Littlest Briston “Goose”. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/51 "2010-04-19T21:12:56Z")
The ones we use most are Hon, Sweetie, Handsome, and Gorgeous. But every now and then, a word or phrase will pop up and I’ll call him that for a day or two. The most recent example is Sex Cookie. I also like calling him things that end with “-pants”: Sweetiepants, Sexypants, Cutiepants. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/52 "2010-04-19T21:20:09Z")
Mrs. SMV is “Snorky” or “Snorks”. She used that as an adjective to describe herself once when she had a cold, and I just liked the sound of it. Now I use it so much, I sometimes forget what her real name is. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/53 "2010-04-19T21:22:34Z")
When I was with my ex I called her Honeybabez a lot. She used to call me Baby Girl which I really liked. > [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I don’t know who McClintock is. It’s a street in Tempe, AZ. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/54 "2010-04-19T22:00:28Z")
For reasons lost to the fog of time, we call each other “Dude.” (And yes, we’re a hetero couple. 🙂 ) Sometimes “Doot,” which is a Dave Barry-ism for…poop (such as “cleaning cat doots out of the litter box”). I guess it’s not really any worse than “poopsy.” ---
**Author:** ![SWMBO95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@SWMBO95](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SWMBO95)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/55 "2014-11-27T01:21:49Z")
I call him pet, pup, toy, little mouse (he gets squeaky when he’s excited or nervous), love, and sweetheart a lot. He calls me Miss, Mistress, Princess, beautiful, and baby more than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/56 "2014-11-27T01:32:59Z")
I call her Old Wench and she sometimes calls me Campfire Buns or Pony Boy. OK - they don’t sound all that sweet but they remind us of loved ones who are gone now and are special memories we share. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/57 "2014-11-28T05:38:09Z")
Many have come and gone over the years, but I think my favorite enduring one is Squish Potato Pie. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/58 "2014-11-28T16:10:00Z")
Another vote for Schmoopie. We watched too much Seinfeld… ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/59 "2014-11-28T16:16:17Z")
I call her “the Ones” and she calls me “the Huns”. We both used to call our kid “The Wibbler”, but we can’t call him that to his face anymore, now that he is nearly 9. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pet-names-do-you-call-your-significant-other/536373/60 "2014-11-28T16:36:22Z")
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