To ask you if you 'hubby'?

[MitzyLeFrouf]

Not a thread about a thread but a thread inspired by a thread.

I've noticed a lot of 'hubby' references on MN in the last few months. This is new isn't it? I thought the average MNer was as allergic to 'hubby' as Gremlins are to water and being fed after midnight.

So do you 'hubby' or do you snub(by) 'hubby'?

An acquaintance of mine refers to her husband as "hubbalubs"- I try not to vomit whenever I hear her say it or read it on FB. Her children are referred to as "the tribe"- there are 2 of them!

I hubby.

I know it's hated on here, but meh. I do it without even thinking, it's just common parlance where I live and I'm pretty common

Hate hubby. But even worse - my friend calls her husband "the hublet"! I can't bear it.

Well I use hubby, not everyday of course and usually only when I am with my mates or colleagues and I am in casual conversation.

Oh well looks like I am in the minority

I would never use it in serious / professional conversation etc, nor would buy those awful shirts either that are above.

I remove people from Facebook and my life for using this. It's vomit inducing and mostly used by "that" mum, she also uses "bubs", "girlie's", "hun", "sleeps" and "holibobs".
Around here they'd be called a chav but I'm not fond of that term. The phrases just irritate me.

Hubbalubs? Hublet? Both sound a plausible name for the 5th Teletubby Does that get said in the bedroom, too?

I can't get worked up about it. Each to their own.
Who really cares how other people refer to their spouse. Really makes no odds whatso ever

I think twee terms for little kids are okay, those cute little blighters have a knack for bringing out the twee. So therefore people have a twee exemption clause with regards to their kids up until the age of 7. (although calling your toddler 'sexy' will always be weird).

But hubby.........no. Same with people who refer to their spouse as 'mummy/daddy'.

You remove people from your life for saying hubby Mrs Grinch. I don't believe you.

MrsGrinch, you hardliner.

I think what's worse is when you are talking to someone you don't know well about, say, food, and they say "ooh, Bill loves a nice bit of roast beef". They never say "my husband, Bill". You are just expected to know who Bill is.
I notice this all the time. It's really tempting to look blank and say "Bill? Is that your dog then?"
Why does this bother me? Is it annoying, or am I an embittered spinster?

I'd assume Bill-the-husband rather than Bill-the-milkman is being cooked for, but yes, that can be irritating.

Hubby is vile, twee, revolting bleurgh

Cuppa, hun, bubz, bubba - yuk

Never in a million years would I ever use any of them - not even ironically

I know one person who says hubby re her dh. I ignore it. I'm looking forward to meeting him and saying " oh, hello hubby. What an interesting name:)

I won't really. She's all starry eyed about him. I suppose I'll know if they are having problems because he won't be hubby he'll be " my husband" through clenched teeth.

I hate 'hubby', also 'cuppa' and 'biccies'.

Hubby conjures up some unsophisticated oaf wandering about in homer Simpson slippers.

I am unashamedly snobby about it. I'm not a nice person probably...

I bloody do not 'hubby'. Hubby makes me hivey.

(Not actual DH, he's pretty nice)

I have an ex rather than a current...
But even when he was a current, I found it weird to have to confess to having a husband at all - and I had one for the best part of 2 decades! If I had to refer to him, he tended to be "my husband" to people I didn't know. Or, horror of horrors, his actual name to everyone else. Hubby is shuddery.

I have never heard anyone say it irl only on facebook. It does make me cringe but I would never refer to dp as darling/dear partner in conversation either. I just use his name or say my boyfriend/partner

I far prefer hubby to DH. I bloody hate all the DH/DP/DS/DD on here

It's a slippery slope hubby leads to...

Kiddies
Little man
The Boys- Used to reference The Hubby and the Little Man
Hun
Awwwwww bless
and princess to grown women.

Hubby is the gateway drug to never ending twee. Just say no.

the old fart.....hows that!

I judge anyone who uses Hubby, Hun, Little Man and ends sentences with LOL as much as I judge those who use D-H,D,S etc. It's all twee nonsense and lazy writing that has most people outside the forums ripping the mick out of the site users (pretending the 'D' stands for 'damn' or such is no different, everyone reads it as dear or darling, which is just as sickly as 'hubby').

Can't stand it, and 'wifey' gives me the rage also