Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world CarbonatedPastaSauce @lemmy.world 4d ago

Do you have a unique pet name for your sweetheart?

I would love to hear stories about how you came up with whatever unique name you call your SO. Nothing graphic and don’t doxx yourself, I just think some nice stories like that would be fun for everyone in these ridiculous times.

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Possum
My SO and me loved this story and have adopted calling each other with the flock call "Trevor"

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheCloaca/comments/tn37ev/aitc_for_wanting_to_be_with_my_flock/
- That was a hilarious story, thank you!
Not sure if it counts as it's not really a pet name, but when one of us is looking for the other, we make dinosaur noises. The query has an upward inflection ("raahhhh?") and the response has a downward inflection ("rahh!").

At first it was just around the house. Now it's in public too.
- We "caw" like crows, but haven't evolved to do it in public yet hahaha
- I meow to find my husband and he will meow back.
- That is awesome!
Draakje, which is Dutch for tiny dragon. Because she is cute and feisty. And can, when in dire straits, kick open a sturdy locked door.
- I like this! How is it pronounced phonetically?
  
  I tried to figure it out but I am not smart enough to figure out the phonetic alphabet. But basically drrr then a long aaaa and a kje sound.
I'm Sweet Potato.

We hadn't really decided on any pet names yet, and while intending to say sweet pea, she accidentally said sweet potato and it stuck.
- That's super cute!
- Your name isn't Amity is it?
You just made me remember how I called her "little star" for years, after the Beau Taplin poem..

No clue why I stopped. I'm going to start back up, and see what she thinks :)
- Awwww. I’m sure she will appreciate it!
Wi-Fi
- I do the same 😄
- Is there a story behind it that you can share?
  
  I’m a geek, my wife claimed I love my Wi-Fi more than her (in a playful way) so I said, I love you just as much as my Wi-Fi…. Called her my Wi-Fi… Then it just kinda stuck.
  
  💻 🍆 💦
Yes. But you have to understand - to my mind, the purpose of a pet name is to entertain me, while mildly annoying her, by being unforgivably twee.

I call her my little Smoddy-Dimble.
My pet name has become Aqua from konosuba somehow haha
- Hopefully not because you're that upset all the time!
  
  Haha, I think it's my ditzy nature. I get called it anytime I forget something or cause a mishap.
My family calls him Mickey. My aunt doesn't speak English and couldn't quite get his name right so now he's just Mickey, like the mouse.

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