to detest the phrase ...

[plonker]

'lil man'

It makes me want to bleach my eyes and scream at the screen!!

Ok, I know I'm BU but God I detest it

Rant over

It's dreadfully mawkish

I'll agree with you plonker but I'll just add 'mister man'.

Gawd some people have no imagination.

I'll tell you what is worse than 'lil man'....'gawjuss lil man'. Yuck!

yep - am with you OP.
Hate it.
and Bubs, Bubba, preggo.... urgh!

'sproglet'?

'hubby'?

Hubby
Lil man is just horrible, too...I agree!

YANBU.

I DETEST 'lil man'. Especially when used in Facebook statuses such as 'carnt wait 2 c ma lil man l8rz', or 'had a wicked time wiv ma gawjus lil man'.

None of you are BU with any of these.

Glad other people think 'hubby' is ick. How to de-sexualise someone in one fell swoop - call them 'hubby'.

I call DH hubby, however it is very much tongue in cheek, And he calls me wifey in return.

(We aren't even married yet)

I call my DS my little man - does that count in the yukky stakes!!??? I am single and therefore he is the man of the house ( in the gender sense not on the rule the roost sense)!!

i also didn't like the phrase, but find myself using it becuase DS, is, well, a smaller, cuter version of Daddy.

I also call my husband 'hubliboo'

I call my little guy big tummy .

I am single and I baulk at 'DH' on thread about some man who is a knob. Just put 'h'. Don't put the D in if he's being an arse and doesn't deserve to be D

agreed and 'little one'

my dh is irish and calls our boy the "wee man"..as in "howz aboutya wee man?!"

i like it!

ach, he's nordurn irelunt?

ignore that last post. it made no sense and was not funny. but you knew that.

I so so agree, have always hated 'lil man'

It's god-awful. But then I guess the parents who call their daughters 'princess' have to have something to say to their sons.....

Ah bog off the lot of you. My little man IS my little man, and my DH calls me his bubbagumpington so there

NEver really heard 'lil man' , thankfully. Princess, awful.

Completely off the subject, but I HATE those car signs that say "princesss on board". Actually I loathe all those "kids on board" signs - but especially the princess one. Makes me want to drive very close to the car....

I don't like "li'l man" but quite like "wee man" -- have come round to it as we are in Scotland and DP/DS are Scottish, and it is quite sweet.

Cannot abide "hubby" -- no excuse for that sort of language.

Hate it. Throw daggers at anyone who says it to DS. Same with 'wee man'. And 'little fella'.

Though my mum calls him The Man-ikin, which I like. But probably because she's my Mum, and I like her.

And actually, I call him Hume, short for human, which is what he was called in utero.

Oh, and DD calls him 'my guy', which makes. me. melt.

So really, I'm no better than the Lil Man crew, am I?

Off topic, but on the offchance that you are the real plumsykes I'll say hello. I knew you at college.

Sadly, is not I.

I am nicer, but far, far less groomed.

And quite a bit fatter.

Oh God Yes, gawjuss lil man is even worse!

...it really makes me feel violent!

I'm relieved to see that I'm not cringing alone

Never heard lil man.

I loathe Mam, Mammy, Babs, Babby. Shuddering memories of cloth cap and whippet upbringing.