Dear God please help me chick

[quantumdog]

Help me to work out a way to nip this madness in the bud please.
Newish partner refers to me as 'chick'. I don't know why, but this really winds me up and I'm losing all respect for him.
I'm not a 'chick'. I'm not newly hatched, I'm 40 and I've been around the block a few times. 😆
For context, this evening he's said 'Would you like another drink Chick?' and 'Sounds like you had a great week Chick', amongst many more chick type references.
He's so lovely and I know I should just tell him, but I've already had to reign him in on other things in the last few weeks, so to bring this up now would just feel pedantic.
Could you suggest a way of pulling him up on this without causing offence please? A witty riposte perhaps, or a nickname to counter this that I could call him?
Or am a just being utterly ridiculous? I mean, there are far worse things he could call me...right?

Call him 'Chuck'

If you are a chick, is he the cock?

(Me and my friends call each other chick though so maybe we are big cocks too!)

"cup of tea, Dick?"

Call him dick every time he says u ok chick..say yea im ok dick

Or dick head

Agh! It's difficult. I've decided that I will work my way through suggestions on here in order, methodically, until he gets the message.
So hit me.

Cluck and do your best chicken dance every. single. time.

Yes! @Newpuppyplanning ! My kind of suggestion.

Call him 'pumpkin' or something.

My dh tried this when we were first dating. I just told him not to.

Some little snot student called me a chick while we were debating at uni. I was 38 and I let him have it. Demeaning little prick.

Newly hatched

Definitely needs nipping in the bud.

Where I live they call you duck. I am from down south. I have lived here 17 years and it still drives me crazy. Everytime it's said to me I can't help but say I don't quack. Try clucking in response maybe it will annoy him and he will change it on his own. Or call him cock. You can say it's the male version of chicken after all. Only you will know your saying it because his acting a dick calling you chick.

Call him Pup back

I'm not sure why I take such offence to this particular term. I've been referred to as a fair number of what some might consider demeaning or sexist pet names and none of them have ever really bothered me. For example, my ex husband of 13 years called me 'Babe'. Maybe it's just that I was younger and prepared to tolerate these things more then, I'm not sure.
I do think I'd still much rather be called 'babe' now though. Chick feels almost insulting. Call me any number of nicknames or insults even, and 'chick' will still be like nails down a blackboard.

Some of my friends call me chick. My mum called me chicky. I call my dc chick or chicky too, and I think Dh sometimes calls me chick. I like it. Can’t you just tell him you hate it ?

For me it can depend though in almost all circumstances I'd hate it but I know that in some dialects it's a normally used word in the same way some places in Scotland might say lassie or some places in the midlands use duck and while none of these are necessarily words I would use they are using them as a natural part of their language rather than to be annoying.

Otherwise though ye really annoying!

If you’re having to “reign him in” on several things like this, I might be asking if we were really compatible or not. If you’re not seeing eye to eye on so many minor things, and don’t feel like you can adequately communicate that then I’d worry about bigger picture stuff personally. I think a breezy, casual mention of it would also be better than passive aggressive retorts.

But then I miss the terms of endearments from fellow Geordies after moving to midlands. An occasional “duck” doesn’t hold a candle to the “hinny” and “pet” of your north.

If anyone called me babe that would be the ick right there.

Chick... not as bad as babe, but I think I’d just have to say - you know what, please don’t call me that, I’m not keen.

I hate hun so much. I saw a comment from my boyfriend (very new at the time) from four years before hand on Facebook calling someone hun and it made me shudder. He did it to me once and I said how much I hated it. Haven’t heard it since. Thank god.

I think just very gently say, I love that you want to call me something endearing and that’s your go to, but eeeeurgh hahah can we go with darling/Baaaaybze/whatever

I sometimes call my little grandson 'you little chick' but then again he is only two.

'Babe' is nice. I like that. My son and his girl call each other 'Babe'.. it makes them exclusive.

I don't think it's a dialect thing as we both hail from the same area in the UK, despite meeting and residing (separately) in the same county now.
I'd happily tell him to pack the fuck in, but I've just had to have 'a word' about a couple of things that were really bothering me. Just silly things like this, but to bring up yet another issue right now just feels cruel and unnecessary when he's actually a really lovely man. I want an effective yet fair way of telling him I'm not his 'chick'. If he can't change it then I'm afraid it will be time to say goodbye. I have no idea why it grates on me so much, but it does and it's affecting my view of him sadly.

Oh Gawd, I couldn't be arsed getting wound up about that.
Term of endearment, surely?
Then again, you're entitled to hate it, so maybe just say "don't like it?"
His reaction to you saying stop and whether he carries on doing it or not is what's important here.
You'd also love living here (not) - everyone's a duck, a hen, or a luv regardless of whether you're male or female lol, or just a random passing stranger

@JoeCalFuckingZaghe
It's such minor things that I've had to redress so far, and he's done the same with me. That's part of being an adult and drawing boundaries, you can't expect anyone to know straight off the bat about your irks and quirks? What an odd comment!

@quantumdog

I don't think it's a dialect thing as we both hail from the same area in the UK, despite meeting and residing (separately) in the same county now. I'd happily tell him to pack the fuck in, but I've just had to have 'a word' about a couple of things that were really bothering me. Just silly things like this, but to bring up yet another issue right now just feels cruel and unnecessary when he's actually a really lovely man. I want an effective yet fair way of telling him I'm not his 'chick'. If he can't change it then I'm afraid it will be time to say goodbye. I have no idea why it grates on me so much, but it does and it's affecting my view of him sadly.

OK Just say stop calling me Chick I can't effingwell stand it :)

I am a hun hater and had to tell my last boyfriend to stop it I would have ended up hitting him over the head with a blunt object.

I’m from Liverpool and it makes me wince to hear young men and often fully grown men calling their girlfriend/partner/wife their “bird” it’s horrible