This woman keeps calling me babe

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I am also a woman and we are around the same age. She knows my name but still always calls me babe.

Does anyone have any idea what this could mean?

Uhm. She watches a lot of television?

It means she's a commoner "alright babes" haha

My sister calls me babe/baby. She was so used to saying it to her husband that it used to slip out all the time so now she just goes with it 😅

Maybe this woman is just used to using the word and doesn't notice.

She's a chav. I hate it!

it's just a genial thing - enjoy

I worked with someone who did this - it was just the way she talked. She was young, fashionable, outgoing - very pleasant person although we had nothing in common. I don't like being called 'babe' by anyone, even or perhaps especially by my husband, but it's not a hill to die on if an otherwise unobjectionable colleague does it.

It's a generic nickname. I know someone who calls EVERYONE "chicken"

I hate “hun” as in honey.
My mate has a friend on FB who uses it all the time.
Cringe.

Love, petal, sweetheart, babe, darlin' - you've never heard people refer to each other like this?

Couldn't get worked up about it. I've got a friend who calls everyone babe, another who uses honey, and I'm Northern so call anyone and everyone love.

She's being friendly

There’s a woman at work who calls me ‘chick’. I find it excruciatingly annoying

I hate it and I especially hate hun 🤬I agree with @NiqueNique They pick it up from trash TV and think it’s cool 🙄 I don’t like love, me-duck, petal etc either, but at least these terms have their routes in affectionate working class ways of addressing people. I like to me called by my name or madam/ma’am.

She thinks you're a pig in the city.

Perhaps your her type

I don't think it mean anything, some people just refer to everyone as babes. Or maybe she is bad with names

Are you serious? I'm Welsh. Everyone calls each other babe. It's a regional thing I think. Why would you take offence ?

A term of affection to show she likes you as a person. I would be offended if she calls you cunt though as that means she dislikes you 😁

I like being called babe. My best friend calls me babe. ❤️

She obviously fancies you, op. 🙄
Have you never encountered a regional accent before?

Could be worse in Glasgow it would be Hen.

Perhaps she doesn’t have a good memory for names?

Inappropriate terms of endearment are common and cringy, but she obviously doesn't know that!

My DD and I call each other babes.

Or pumpkin.

Or sweet cheeks.