There is nothing wrong with the term 'hubby'.

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There just isn't.
This MN trend of sneering at posters for using a common term that has been deemed unfashionable...but only on mumsnet...is boring, childish and bloody rude.
If you had a go at someone for using it in rl you'd look like a dick.

AIBU?

Hubby is no where near as bad as yummymummy or momma bear

Well, with people now typing Ddog all over the place hubby seems less annoying.

I dislike the whole 'unmumsnetty' as though you have to be part of a special club to be on here. 'Unmumsnetty' hugs and 'ugh, don't say hubby or kids'. Patronising so and sos, people can say what they damned well like, tough. There are no rules on here saying you can't use them. It makes the user who complains look like a snobby git.

Conversely, I would rather pull someone up on using 'brought' rather than bought or an apostrophe in a plural because it's incorrect and surely it's handy for people to know that ridiculous is not spelt 'rediculous'. Handy for a CV, for example. As I previously said, though, people can say what they want so although I might not like it, I leave it alone (mostly)

Oh yes, baby momma 😝

Its not on the hubz and hunz scale, but 'tiger mum' really grates on me.

HmmmmBop

I had someone on facebook briefly who had their occupation as "Full time mummy" and their kids' names in their middle name on it. I had to delete them, it annoyed me every time I logged on!

'I refer the my husband by name, never hubby.'

In real life, we all do, don't we?

Online you're not going to use his real name are you?

StillStayingClassy

I hate the term hubby.

But worse...I know someone who says bubba and mumma and that REALLY makes me want to puke!

YABU

Despise the word 'hubby' but thankfully am yet to hear anyone use it in real life.

I don't use it but have heard others in my work using it but never about their own husbands. It's usually used because the person can't remember, or doesn't know, the name of someones husband. e.g they will ask 'how's your hubby? if they have heard he is ill etc.

It's ironic how many people have commented 'It's so cringe' - when it's nowhere near as bad as the MN trend of using 'cringe' as a noun or adjective.

I don't like it. I don't like all the d-ing of everything either, but at least people don't do that in rl. Pil are constantly shortening everything. Spag Bol followed by choc ice cream, and going to the docs, so and so's off to uni - what are they doing with all the time saved by ditching these unnecessary syllables? Reorganising the boot again I expect.

I do find the words silly but I wouldn't point it out as that seems rude. It might be funny on some threads when op is up for a laugh but sometimes it's someone who needs support getting jeered at and that's horrible.

Coco - yes, I hear it used in that context too.

There's just a hubby "type". They tend to talk about their holibobs, huns, their younique. They're nearly always "full time yummy mummies", I once stumbled upon a "full time yummy mummy and girlfriend". It pleases me because I know to avoid them pretty quickly..

Ugh one of my friends uses it in RL. Her Facebook status always refer to her "and the hubby" going somewhere or doing something. Just use his name!!!
I'm sure it's not why a lot of others use the word (though I do find cringeworthy in any context) but with her I think it's because she loves the fact that she has a husband ... had the big wedding of her dreams etc. For ages all statuses could be a countdown until "I become Mrs Hisname" and now it's a way of slipping the wedding into every status since.

I'm on the fence about this. I do think it's a bit twatty to pull up new posters about this but I do like the fact that in general MN is a Hubby free zone.

The word "hubby" doesn't annoy me at all. To be honest, I find "DC", "DH" etc. much more twee! Mumsnet is funny this way; some words are deemed verboten for reasons not entirely clear.

It does annoy me when a poster starts a thread with a dilemma or difficulty (even if she is clearly being unreasonable) and gets pulled up for using one of the unseemly words like "hubby" or on a point of grammar. It just makes the responder look like a shitehawk.

The only thing that does tend to irritate me a little on Mumsnet (though only a little bit) is the proliferation of posters who talk about, for example, "a present from X and I"; a "matter between X and I"; "a picture of X and I" and so on. This is a peculiarly middle-class (and therefore Mumsnettian!) grammatical error. It's sometimes correct to use "me"; context is all! I wouldn't point out the error though, 'cos I'm lovely, like !!

personally hate the term and it does make me cringe - but would think the person who 'corrected' the use of it was much more of a twat bag.

Hate 'my other half' even more though. Also 'better half,' - just twee, patronising and factually incorrect - YOU ARE A WHOLE ENTITY BY YOURSELF. Not half a person.

I'm verging on being considered 'elderly' (only considered, mind) and hubby is not a word that was ever around in my world, to me it's quite a modern term. Unless it's regional?