What Are The Best Pet Names for Sweethearts?
Question:
Do you have a pet name for your spouse/significant other–sweety, sugar, love muffin? What’s the background story behind your nicknames?
C’mon, just share …we can all be embarrassed together.
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31 Responses to “What Are The Best Pet Names for Sweethearts?”
We call each other hone most often. But we also call each other babe, sweety, love…I guess I’ll stop listing all the names we call each other so I don’t spoil everyone else’s.
Come to think of it – we don’t use our names very often with each other.
By Nancy on Feb 29, 2008
We call each other “Ar-Far!”
We are in a long-distance relationship so we chat on MSN frequently. What started out as Darling was often mistyped Farling.
For convenience’s sake, Farling was shortened to Far. For culture’s sake, we started to add the “Ar” because that’s just the chinese way to call names.
My Ar-Far lies over the ocean.
By precious on Feb 29, 2008
my husband’s pet name is “stinky.”
By sarah on Feb 29, 2008
My wife is “Schnitzel”.
She actually turns her head around in restaurants when people order that dish…
By Tsahi Levent-Levi on Feb 29, 2008
Schnitzel? I love it! You gotta tell the story behind that
By The Donkey on Feb 29, 2008
I call my husband “Pooh”, as in Winnie the Pooh. He calls me “Honey”, ’cause a Pooh can’t live without his honey!
By Linda~ on Feb 29, 2008
Ok, here it goes:
My wife likes to eat Chicken. No other kind of meat for her. No fish (well, mostly). No seafood.
I make the food at home – she doesn’t like cooking while I do. Schnitzel was the only option open.
By the way – her mother calls her “Pulky” (Pulke means the leg part of the chicken).
By Tsahi Levent-Levi on Feb 29, 2008
My exgirlfriend used to call me “love” or “my love”. I thought it was creepy. Who talks like that?
By John on Feb 29, 2008
From the cartoon Jimmy Neutron – Sugar Booger is a funny one I’ve use. Daisuki is another (Japanese for my favorite).
By BLB on Feb 29, 2008
I call my boyfriend my Mr.- Boyfriend is really not a term I use at all, and well… I remember watching My First Mister w/ Al Brooks and Leelee Soviesky, it just stuck with me… and the name stuck to him. =)
By Saki on Feb 29, 2008
I used to call Jack Creature/Squirrel because he liked to hide stuff in my pockets when I wasn’t paying attention.
He calls me Honey Bunches of Oats… probably cuz I call him honey so much he had to have his own thing.
By April J. on Feb 29, 2008
My husband calls me Kitten. I love it and I think it fits me well.
By Shannon on Feb 29, 2008
Oooo, Daddy prewrote a post about our “pet name” last week. I have to tell him to post it now!
By Mommy Daddy Blog Sheena on Mar 1, 2008
My DH calls me Bunny. Started when we were first dating and he made a remark about my small feet. Given that I wear a size 8.5 (not at all small), I was surprised to hear him say that. When questioned, he responded “Well, what COULD I say? That you have big ol’ floppy bunny feet?”. I’ve been Bunny ever since.
By ShadowBunny on Mar 1, 2008
I call him Pete (instead of Peter) and he makes up names for me only when I am wearing a monochromatic outift -usually delivered in a sarcastic tone.
My favorite so far has to be “The Pregnant Ninja.”
By celine on Mar 1, 2008
My hubby and I call each other “Chicken,” a habit I picked up from a guy friend who always referred (lovingly) to women as chickens. It has evolved to many variations, such as “Küken” (pronounced kook-en), a word a German friend of mine told me means “chick” as in baby chicken.
WE also “Bawk-bawk” at each other, which is a side effect of being chickens of course. We can bawk-bawk in anger, questioningly, to annouce our arrival home– all sorts of different things. Also, we’ve been known to refer to our house and our bed, at times, as “The Coop.”
This is all very strange to other people but you know, within a couple, these things do happen. We also have our own sort of Pig-Latin that I call Pippity-Lippity, in which we drop everything from random words except the first letter (or logical syllable), and replace all the rest of the word with “ippity.” Like “Honey, could you hand me the remippity, please?” or “I am going to take a shippity.”
I don’t have any idea how it started, but sometimes it gets really out of hand and we have to call an Ippity Time Out for a week or so.
By Elizabeth on Mar 1, 2008
When Jeff and I started dating, I was still in school. One night I was meeting with a school team as we were preparing for a tax competition. We were using our laptops and I was on MSN Messenger with my then boyfriend (now husband). All of the other team members were boys and one of them decided to type to my hubby as a joke. He started going through random pet names until he could find the one that Jeff would like the least. That name ended up being “Shnookems” and now it has stuck! To this day, 3 1/2 years later, he is always Shnookems!
By Michelle on Mar 1, 2008
My husband calls me Diamond. He started calling me this after seeing Ferris Bueller and the line “Cameron is so uptight if you stuck a lump of cole up his butt it would turn into a diamond a week later” It used to make me mad but then we found another reason why this is true.
By Lucy on Mar 2, 2008
umm… what does DH mean? I see it on newlywed websites a lot
By April on Mar 3, 2008
This is embarassing and weird, but my husband and I call each other “poo.” We don’t know how it’s spelled – pooh/poo/pu… I think it started as an insult one time when I was pretending to be annoyed: “you little poo.” And now we lovingly call each other “little poo(h)” all the time.
By Sarah Marie on Mar 3, 2008
When people asked our pet names for each other I would also say, “Psst” or “Oi”.
I think I’m donkey’s long lost sister.
(Donkey’s luckier though, he’s still married!)
By kat on Mar 3, 2008
since someone else took my name I will have to use this one.
I call Max Boo-boo as in, Yogi and. We don’t have an ippity language (sorry Brit) but we do sometimes talk in Yogi voices.
By Elishiabeth on Mar 6, 2008
My fiancee and I use “Hounie” for each other. It’s a word we came up with years ago, and have been using it ever since. I actually just published a post yesterday explaining the whole back story behind it if you guys wanna check it out (my name is a direct link to the post).
By Greg on Mar 12, 2008
We call each other Bubbuh, Hunny bunny, Tumble bunny, Tumbleweed(?), honey bear, Hubsy, and Wifey. Don’t tell my husband I gave away our secret!
By Mrs. Angela Ellis on Mar 15, 2008
My husband calls me, “Woman.” It is cute, ’till the kids start doing it. LOL!!
“Hey, Woman, when’s dinner gonna be ready?”
I call him by his given first name, except when he calls me (on the phone) – - then I answer with things like: “Hello, my Love Muffin,” or “Yes, my Dahling!” or “What’s up, Sugar Butt.” (It is different everytime – - gotta keep him on his toes…know what I mean?
Oh, and for the person who asked what “DH” means….it is Dear Husband. You will also see DS and DD (Dear Son and Dear Daughter) from time to time.
By Heidi on Mar 22, 2008
I call my hubby “Pookie” & he calls me his “Princess”. We’ve had this pet names since we started dating. Now we’re going on 4 years of marriage.
By Jen on Apr 21, 2008
I call my boyfriend “Pooh” or “Pooh Bear”.
By Terry on Sep 30, 2008
My husband calles me boob because I have one perfectly sized D cup while the other is an A. He just loves my imperfections. He just loves the differnce in sizes. It really switches things up
By Nancy on Nov 10, 2008
I want to see you Nancy (boob)
I bet buying a bra is tough work for you. I also think you should consider changing your name to Ilene.
By Anonimizer on Nov 11, 2008
I call my wife “woman” a lot, like Heidi’s husband (above). It’s not derogatory or anything, just fun.
Our most unique pet names for each other are probably Hippoonetamus and Hippotwotamus, or just Hippo for short. Oh, it’s not because we’re fat hippos. We always said that we’re “hungry…hungry hippo” when we’re hungry and the names evolved from that. I’m 1, she’s 2. Our new infant has been referred to as Hippotinytamus on occasion.
Lastly, I call my wife “cow” or “moo” lately. Again, not because she’s fat (she’s skinny) but because she lactates after the birth of the infant. Good stuff, lol. That sounds like something The Donkey would do.
By Cameron on Jan 22, 2009
I call my boyfriend “honey” or “Ron” instead of Ronnie and he totally adores it. He call me “my angel”…I totally melt.
By Mpho on Jun 30, 2010