One worded answers needed please....An alternative to "Babe'?

[foodjunkie]

That's it really. Need a nice alternative to the word "Babe" when used affectionately.

Ta!

We usually go for whatever is the most nauseating thing we can come up with. Examples:

Snugglepuss
Honeysnuggles
Cuddlebear
Honeybaby
Manlysnuggle

Pud

DP calls me pie - he does it in public which got us a few funny looks when I was in hospital having DS recently!

I call him jack, as in "I'll never let go jack" from titanic - even though we both hate the film it stuck!

H

Oops!

we`re both babe here, bit boring. The kids are Puds & Paz.
My cousin and her husband call each other Boggin & Mingin.
Another friend calls her girlfriend Doll Face which I kind of like but she hates it :)

"Dear", "darling" and "my love" get used a lot between us, all with a healthily ironic intonation.

My dad used to call my mum 'crab chops' and she called him 'fish face'! They're still married after 45 years.

My H and I sometimes use 'bub'. At least there's no fishy connection!!

ickle-wickle sweetie pie

or

ma'am.

honeybun
Sweetiepie
bumshus
spankygator

also, answer to boss.

Mate.

I get
sweetpeep
sweetpea
sweetness
(anyone see a theme!)
snugglebum

Or darling ironically when he is cross!

He gets honey, grump a lump

Mostly dear, hon or pet.

God we sound boring.

Mr/mrs stinks
Mrs fish
Babber
Moofy
Pinkus
Schneed
Mrs norks
Mr/mrs Minkus

Those are just the ones that spring to mind.

LOve waitingtobeamummys spankygator!

Just remembered - used to go out with someone who insisted on calling me Pidgeon - shortened to 'Pidg Pidg' after a while.

No idea why, can't recall randomly accosting strangers for crumbs of their lunch, pecking at cigarette butts on the pavement or 's***ing on him from a great height.

Although with hindsight, I should have done. Amen.

fargate.... the kids call me 'the boss'

Apart from non verbal ds2 but if asked 'who's the boss?' he knows to answer 'Mama, mo Dada' (mo is his word for no/not)

I'm "old witch," he's "grumpy old git."

I'd just like my name, or on of the many possible variations on my nn, which would out me so I can't tell you.
But not one of DHs great collection of slightly sexist terms of endearment that drive me insane

Oh and pumpkinny-wumpkinny when we've been watching Blackadder.

Several decades ago, I seem to remember 'pook'.
Nowadays I sometimes call DH 'honey'.

He tends to use my name... occasionally lapses into 'mummy' when DD isn't around, and (obviously) gets his head bitten off.

He is Bloke and I am Bird. Depending on the situation we often use different prefixes such as: sexy, stinky, useless, fat, lazy, lovely, cuddly etc etc

We have been together a looooooong time!

DH is either his name, mush or mate. He calls me love or lovey.