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#56003 02/09/02 06:12 PM
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What lovey-dovey terms do we use to refer to our significant others (apart from the well-known sugar, honey, and the like), or to our little children?

What terms of this sort are used in other languages?


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Pardon my French, Keiva, but my favorite from French I was, "Mon petit choux-fleur..." and I fairly sure I've mispelled here and no longer own the Larousse...

"My little cabbage head...

I call my kids at school, "You rascals!" and "You little dilly brains!" and "My angels!" (rarely--they're most often "little dickens"...)Delivery is all.

Actually, I like sweet insults better than obviously sweet terms.... Learned 'em from me dad...

Best rascals,
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Dearly beloved Wordwind: ravishingly riotously rejuvenating to see you posting again. Confusion to contemptible contumelious callous poison pen pushers.


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Yer. What he said. I think.

Well, in case he didn't, welcome back. Stick around!



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As to the little ones, my daughter had many, but "Wanzingy" was our favorite. I'm sure I spelled that wrong, but it means "monkey" in Korean.

And as for what I call my husband, it's not so much what I call him, it's how I call him. And what direction I'm heading in, when I call him!


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Stick around!

A celestial welcome back from an Angel to Wordwind!


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And many thanks for the welcome back. Wordwound's wounds are all healed, and, besides, I do like fresh air.

You're pussycats--batting about your little paws in the wind here--I've been reading you!--and I did need to huff and puff a bit over that criticizing of Dearest Emily!

Endearment: My cumquat! My macaroon! Star gazer...apple of my eye...pudding...or puddin'...sweet thang...heart o' my heart ...love of my life...man o' my dreams...jewel...gem...
peach...honey chil'...wild thing...Rose...

All things sweet and all things whimsical...

Beating regards,
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The obvious never being beneath me ... Sweetheart.
M'love. Honeybunch. Sweetie-pie. Honeybug. Lover.
And a word I learned from my college roommate "Nudnick" which is a word, I believe, meaning one who drives you to the brink of madness then does something so adorable and sweet and unexpected you simply *have to love them. For example she named her kitten "Nudnick." A lot of young children deserve the appelation too, n'est ce pas, Mothers?


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Nudnick is Yiddish. The -nik ending is a dead giveaway.

Per Rosten: a nudnik is not just a nuisance; to merit the status of nudnik, a nuisance must be a persistent, talkative, obnoxious and indefatigable nag. As in a mother saying to a child, "Stop bothering me. Don't be a nudnik!" So yes, there is a component of endearment.

Illustrative:
1. What is phudnik? A nudnick with a Ph.D.

2. Mr. Polanski complained to his doctor, "Something terrible has happened to me. I try to stop it, but I can't ... Morning, noon, and night -- I keep talking to myself!" "Now, now," the doctor crooned, "that isn't such a bad habit. Why, thousands of people do it." "But Doctor," protested Polanski, "do you know what a nudnik I am?!"


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From the parental generation: honey pig and petit chou (which I've probably misspelled)

From our generation: kiddo, oh apple of my pie, little tundra flower, sun god, and you-there-I-live-with-you. This last is probably an alternative to remembering the actual name; we're both Aquarians and so tend to forget names, despite 21+ years of marriage. Even our own names. Details, details. The important thing is to remember the reason for the endearments.

"'Round the table now we go; catch me at the corner."

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