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Do you call your child "sausage"?

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Fragmentedbrain · 24/06/2025 13:45

It's really annoying

No aibu I'm confident iabr

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Namechangetry · 24/06/2025 16:27

My dad calls me and my siblings all saus. Also saus woss. We're all middle aged and he still does.We used to wonder whether it was so he didn't have to remember our names or know who was which.

My DC are monkey chops and lion. Obviously.

CustardySergeant · 24/06/2025 16:26

Wanttobefree2 · 24/06/2025 16:13

I used to, but really have no idea why 😂

Some of my friends used to call their son “little man”, that used to drive me nuts!!

I really detest 'little man'. 😡

Amethystanddiamonds · 24/06/2025 16:25

Mine are either mon petit chou-fleur (cauliflower)/mon petit chou (cabbage). Not even French but inherited from my mother. Or.........a silly sausage if they are being daft 😂.

Azureshores · 24/06/2025 16:19

Where I'm from its very common for the older generation to refer to kids as "cock" as in "y'alright cock/cocker? My dc's didn't grow up there and were rather bemused at a family wedding recently to be called cock 🤣

PiousBitch · 24/06/2025 16:19

Is this an attempt at a entry to Classics?

Wingingitbestican · 24/06/2025 16:19

I used to call my son babycakes 😂. I call my little boy dog - my little prince.

museumum · 24/06/2025 16:16

yep. I call ds sausage and dh calls him super sausage. but not in public anymore (is now a pre-teen at secondary school).

MargolyesofBeelzebub · 24/06/2025 16:16

My dog is sausage and sometimes sausagedog, and tonnes of different nicknames 😂. He's about as far from a dachshund as you can get. I don't think I have a pet name for my daughter..! The only one I can think of is 'lovely' (as in "can you pass the salt, lovely?").

RafaFan · 24/06/2025 16:14

We sometimes have "a silly tattie" in our house, this is the Scottish vegetarian equivalent.

Thaawtsom · 24/06/2025 16:14

I have an ex who used sausage interchangeably with any affectionate nickname. I did not like it.

I think I have never called my children sausage. But I do call them chickens, chicks, chickpeas (both boys and girls BTW) and sweetie and when they were little poppet and popsicle. Also sunshine, but in a positive sunshiney way rather than a gangster way.

Is it all random nick names you don't like or particularly sausage? I've never felt that sausage had any different emotion attached to it any more than duck, hen, love, honey etc. all do.

Wanttobefree2 · 24/06/2025 16:13

I used to, but really have no idea why 😂

Some of my friends used to call their son “little man”, that used to drive me nuts!!

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 24/06/2025 16:11

I call my kids baby. No sausages here.

Butteredtoast55 · 24/06/2025 16:11

My adult children often laugh at the things I used to call them: always nice but basically whatever was in my line of vision at the time. So it might be "Good morning, my little shiny saucepan" or "Can you put the kettle on, Welly face?" I do still do it a bit to be honest.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 24/06/2025 16:11

Fragmentedbrain · 24/06/2025 13:49

Where did the laugh reaction go?? Anyway 😂

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Mumsnet deemed it unkind as the bad kids were misusing it.

TheNewVillageIdiot · 24/06/2025 16:11

Yes, my children have all been Sausage, or Sausage-face.
I was thinking veggie sausage when I said it, though.

HRTQueen · 24/06/2025 16:10

yes silly wee sausage in a rubbish Glaswegian accent

A poor imitation of his lovely Scottish Granny

pickle, sweatpea and pumpkin too

mogtheexcellent · 24/06/2025 16:09

Nope. Its PooHead.

shes 10 Grin

Dr13Hadley · 24/06/2025 16:07

I call mine butt hens. My then 4yo tried calling his 1yo brother a butt head but he got confused and called him a butt hen. It stuck.

Dr13Hadley · 24/06/2025 16:05

OldFamilyTable · 24/06/2025 13:52

my mum is Moomin ❤️

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So is mine!

BertieBottsEveryFlavourBeans · 24/06/2025 16:05

Only if they are being silly sausages.

DH started calling the kids "chicken". I found it so bizarre, and now it's bloody caught on and I keep calling them chicken 🐔

And now I'm bloody hungry, thanks OP 😤

Gottogetoutofthisplace · 24/06/2025 16:04

If he hurts himself I say ‘poor little sausage’ while cuddling and comforting him - he’s 6 so I reckon I can just about get away with that!

glittereyelash · 24/06/2025 16:03

No I call him buddy or wuggles sometimes Mr sillypants.

OldGothsFadeToGrey · 24/06/2025 16:02

Yep. Not sorry. Probably going to do it even more now.

PrincessSakura · 24/06/2025 16:01

Oh definitely, mine get called all sorts like silly goose, silly sausage, cheeky monkey, hooligans, sweetie, sweet pea, doughnut, minions, the list goes on…

5128gap · 24/06/2025 16:00

HotCrossBunplease · 24/06/2025 13:50

Not sausage but chicken, are lean non-processed-meat-based nicknames any more acceptable?

Chickpea here. (Vegan).