To HATE the word Hun

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It seems so patronising

I'm with you OP. I'm sure you'll get a ton of MNers thinking they are sooooo funny coming on to say "you ok hun?" etc. Hilarious but yes, it's ridiculous, lazy, implies a level of friendship it usually doesn't warrant and makes me think the person is really rather dim. I very rarely come across anyone who uses it and if they try it with me they get telt! (Scottish, so there's also the sectarian aspect although I'm not on the west so not as acute here).

I find it odd and slightly too personal from someone I've only just met or don't know very well. If a friend uses it then it's not so bad.

I'm with Reeva. Surely it's short for honey (endearment) and should be spelt hon. Nothing to do with Attila/Germany.

I knew someone who always used 'sweetie', 'honey', 'lovely' 'hun' etc with people, turns out they were a user, a narc who just did it to sort of flatter people. Very odd and has now made me very wary of it

Don't like it. My best friend calls me 'hun' but as he doesn't mean it in a nasty way I just grind my teeth a little and don't comment.

I agree with the pp about there being an increasing meaning of nasty sentiments behind it. "Are you ok hun?" Or "ok hun". Its just horrible

Yes I totally agree, others include:

Babe
Bestie
Famlam (whaat the actual hell)
Beaut
Holibobs

Aghggh and the Poonique speak I hear from a friend on Facbook: Growing my little business, reaching out.

Aero, I have a friend who uses famalam but in a completely ironic way as her step family and inlaws are such a mad, toxic, dysfunctional bunch it's her way of making fun of the whole shambles. So I can forgive that one! It's anti-famalam subversion

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Hate it. Also chicken. Just why??!

I know loads of people (family/friends) who use these words (I sometimes use some of them). I know some people (who I happen to find annoying) who also use them. I have never found the use of the individual word in itself annoying. I think the people that do (and the judgement they seem to possess) are probably the most annoying people in real life

It’s very annoying myself and my friends use it in a sarcastic way now, it’s actually pretty funny Hun

It's awful. Sounds fake and the kind of thing people say too soon to try to accelerate the friendship. Just no.

Oh dear. I call my husband 'hun' and he calls me 'babe'. We're in our 50s. I don't call anyone else hun though is that OK? ;)

Not nearly as bad as “pud” just fucking say pudding or dessert before I push your face into your GU cheesecake

YANBU. I hate it too, but 'babe' is even worse.

It's annoys me that it's not Hon too.

Hunni. Coz it's soo gojuss

It makes me feel curiously stabby.

I think it's a combination of the fact that the sort of people I know who use it are neither the sharpest knives in the drawer, or particularly sincere: it feels like a shorthand that assumes an intimacy that doesn't exist.

Oh, yeah, and it's classic MLM/Poonique-speak, which gives me the rage.

Furthermore, I'm from Glasgow, where the strength and genuineness of your friendship is measured by how cheerily unpleasant you are to one another ('you're a cnt, but you're a good cnt').

The best way to indicate how much you loathe somebody is to be icily polite to them (or call them 'hun', either works).

“babe” or “hubby” are worse.