Call Me Babe

12 Feb 2007

I seem to go all weak at the knees when someone calls me babe. Why dunno

especially if they are someone that i would consider swinging with. Maybe its because im a Londoner :karaoke: and alot of men use that term here, so im used to hearing it. I do see it as a term of endearment but was wondering which words or phrases other parts of the country use.
Which words or phrases do you use? especially when your attracted to someone. Which words or phrases do you love to hear?
louise ( babe to you) :giggle:

12 Feb 2007

Hi Louise
There's something about 'babe' that makes me go all strange too!! :smitten:
Some of my swing partners use it and I love it. in fact my nickname with one of them is HRB (Hot Rockin' Babe) wink

pink x

12 Feb 2007

Hya Babe

Each one to their own and it depends where you come from, different pet names have different meanings.. and I think you're going to hear loads on this thread, but personally if a man called me babe I would find it uncomfortable. I just don't see myself as a babe. I've never been one for pet names, I sometimes use 'hun' or little names like that, but on the whole I find pet names very condescending.
I'm a right stick in the mud aren't I? rolleyes

12 Feb 2007

I cannot stand being called babe! Unless it's by Mrs Kiss and even then she is wise to use the term sparingly. lol

If a complete stranger calls me babe or hun I find myself getting irritated.
I do have a tendency to call women I find attractvie 'darling'. (Not to be confused with darlin) It kind of just happens and is meant in a caring way. redface

Anyway there are many things I like being called but I'm not going to divulge them as I know the information might me used against me! :lol:
Although my first girlfriend used to call me 'petal' or 'flower'. That was cute.

12 Feb 2007

Quote by jaymar
I'm a right stick in the mud aren't I?

You old misery guts you wink

pink x

12 Feb 2007

Quote by blueandpink

I'm a right stick in the mud aren't I?

You old misery guts you wink

pink x
haha yes very funny, now get back on that :swingingchair: :rascal:

12 Feb 2007

Hi babe!

That's an interesting question I reckon. I tend to be fairly careful how I use language, so I choose carefully which terms of endearment I use. Once I get to know a woman fairly well I sometimes call them "hun" (though not honey - that is reserved for Nicky most of the time.) One friend of mine I call "chica", which comes from a spanish term meaning "attractive in a cute way", or so I understand. (The masculine form is "chico".) One of my previous girlfriends I used to call "mon petit chou-fleur" which literally means "my little cauliflower" but she seemed to like it! rotflmao

I think my LEAST favorite term of endearment is "duck" which we tend to get a lot around here - it seems to be prevalent in the Derby/Notts/Sheffield/Leicester kind of area (we get a lot of tourists in Skegness from these towns.)
Russell

12 Feb 2007

I'm a right stick in the mud aren't I?

You old misery guts you wink

pink x
haha yes very funny, now get back on that :swingingchair: :rascal:
If only blast

pink x

12 Feb 2007

Quote by jaymar
Hya Babe
Each one to their own and it depends where you come from, different pet names have different meanings.. and I think you're going to hear loads on this thread, but personally if a man called me babe I would find it uncomfortable. I just don't see myself as a babe. I've never been one for pet names, I sometimes use 'hun' or little names like that, but on the whole I find pet names very condescending.
I'm a right stick in the mud aren't I?

I dont think im a babe either. I dont mean calling me a "total babe" but just when someone says something like "hello babe".
redface

ive got to stop writing that word. surprised

ops:
Louise xx

12 Feb 2007

Quote by Kiss
I cannot stand being called babe! Unless it's by Mrs Kiss and even then she is wise to use the term sparingly.
If a complete stranger calls me babe or hun I find myself getting irritated.
I do have a tendency to call women I find attractvie 'darling'. (Not to be confused with darlin) It kind of just happens and is meant in a caring way.
Anyway there are many things I like being called but I'm not going to divulge them as I know the information might me used against me! :lol:
Although my first girlfriend used to call me 'petal' or 'flower'. That was cute.

Ah i hate being called darling especially if person is younger than me.
Louise xx
but for you Kiss id make an exception. wink

12 Feb 2007

'Darling' for me is reserved for very close people and my children.
pink x

12 Feb 2007

Quote by louise_and_joe
I cannot stand being called babe! Unless it's by Mrs Kiss and even then she is wise to use the term sparingly.
If a complete stranger calls me babe or hun I find myself getting irritated.
I do have a tendency to call women I find attractvie 'darling'. (Not to be confused with darlin) It kind of just happens and is meant in a caring way.
Anyway there are many things I like being called but I'm not going to divulge them as I know the information might me used against me! :lol:
Although my first girlfriend used to call me 'petal' or 'flower'. That was cute.

Ah i hate being called darling especially if person is younger than me.
Louise xx
but for you Kiss id make an exception. wink

You would? Well I do say it in a nice way, not a greeting of "Alright darlin" but more of a "Take care darling". It just happens, I do actually try to stop myself. surprised

ops:
I get called cute a lot - which is another irritation at times. I don't want to be cute, I want to be sexy or feisty or seductive but it always seems to come back to me being cute! Still it could be worse. :lol2:

12 Feb 2007

You would? Well I do say it in a nice way, not a greeting of "Alright darlin" but more of a "Take care darling". It just happens, I do actually try to stop myself. redface

I get called cute a lot - which is another irritation at times. I don't want to be cute, I want to be sexy or feisty or seductive but it always seems to come back to me being cute! Still it could be worse. :lol2:
That way i dont mind.
You do look sexy, feisty and seductive.
But also very cute bolt

louise (babe)xx

12 Feb 2007

Quote by louise_and_joe
You do look sexy, feisty and seductive.

You are most kind. kiss

Quote by louise_and_joe
But also very cute

:shock:

:smackbottom: :smackbottom:
Actually now I come to think of it I've been called a couple of things in the last week or so that I've rather enjoyed hearing.
I don't so much as call people certain words, I just tend to say what I feel/see. If somebody looks lovely or sexy or pretty etc I will tell them.

12 Feb 2007

Quote by Kiss
I cannot stand being called babe! Unless it's by Mrs Kiss and even then she is wise to use the term sparingly.
If a complete stranger calls me babe or hun I find myself getting irritated.
I do have a tendency to call women I find attractvie 'darling'. (Not to be confused with darlin) It kind of just happens and is meant in a caring way.
Anyway there are many things I like being called but I'm not going to divulge them as I know the information might me used against me! :lol:
Although my first girlfriend used to call me 'petal' or 'flower'. That was cute.

Ah i hate being called darling especially if person is younger than me.
Louise xx
but for you Kiss id make an exception. wink

You would? Well I do say it in a nice way, not a greeting of "Alright darlin" but more of a "Take care darling". It just happens, I do actually try to stop myself. surprised

ops:
I get called cute a lot - which is another irritation at times. I don't want to be cute, I want to be sexy or feisty or seductive but it always seems to come back to me being cute! Still it could be worse. :lol2:
i hate being called cute too, i think of puppies as being cute and being as i am what mr 04 calls 'a bit goth', i dont think cute really applies lol. i call mr 04 babe but anyone else gets called hun (male or female).

12 Feb 2007

funny how we have different little terms of endearment isnt it - but for the record, Babe is probably the one I dislike the most lol

I've noticed that on here, in text or pm etc I call people I'm familiar with 'hun' ...but its not something I say verbally much dunno

Sweetie, Chick and 'Toots' (:dunno: :lol2 smile

are one's I say quite often along with Luv and Duckie which everyone else finds really annoying :lol2:
Dont call me Babe, save it for Louise wink

12 Feb 2007

Quote by Darkfire
funny how we have different little terms of endearment isnt it - but for the record, Babe is probably the one I dislike the most
I've noticed that on here, in text or pm etc I call people I'm familiar with 'hun' ...but its not something I say verbally much Sweetie, Chick and 'Toots' (:dunno: :lol2 are one's I say quite often along with Luv and Duckie which everyone else finds really annoying :lol2:
Dont call me Babe, save it for Louise

my dad is from leicester and up that way they call people 'me ducks' :lol: that one really used to bug me when we went visiting lol

12 Feb 2007

Being from notts I have been known to use duck or duckie as well smile

'ayup me duck'= hello

12 Feb 2007

Quote by welshcpl2004
funny how we have different little terms of endearment isnt it - but for the record, Babe is probably the one I dislike the most
I've noticed that on here, in text or pm etc I call people I'm familiar with 'hun' ...but its not something I say verbally much Sweetie, Chick and 'Toots' (:dunno: :lol2 are one's I say quite often along with Luv and Duckie which everyone else finds really annoying :lol2:
Dont call me Babe, save it for Louise

my dad is from leicester and up that way they call people 'me ducks' :lol: that one really used to bug me when we went visiting lol
It is strange isn't it, I don't have any qualms about being called duck/duckie or luv etc.
Just don't call me babe! mad

*Ok ok I'll stop over reacting*:lol:
In Edit: I forgot to say also that I cannot abide being called 'dear' unless it's by somebody who is 70+ otherwise I find it extremely patronishing.
Oh yeah... and don't call me babe!

12 Feb 2007

who is doing the saying goes a long way to how it mkes me feel.
I quite like being called babe

12 Feb 2007

Well Hun or Hunny seems to be a term used most here and is one i use in general but there is one person i call babe, babes or bab which i do prefer to use only after asking her if she prefered it.

12 Feb 2007

I use 'hun' or 'hunni' a lot to my friends but when a certain guy calls me 'babe' I go all gooey :inlove:

12 Feb 2007

Sorry its a pet hate of mine....i will not use the words Babe,hun,love and darling on any women!

12 Feb 2007

I like to use the word *dear* but only when I'm talking to male friends of mine, i dont know why

12 Feb 2007

Sorry its a pet hate of mine....i will not use the words Babe,hun,love and darling on any women!

damn
pink x

12 Feb 2007

I find it extremley uncomfortable in using any words like that when im talking to even very good friends and only ever do it when talking to ex or my kids. I dont even do it to my best female friend.

12 Feb 2007

Isn't Babe the name of a pig? wink

Sweetie rolls of the tongue with me but only with people I reeeeeeeally like.
One v. special person calls me cariad, which melts me - because it's her.
.

12 Feb 2007

To me, babe is a piglet in the film of same name. Here in brum im always called bab which when you think of the accent is a horrible term
Dear is deffinately patronising from a younger person
Darling can conjour 2 different visions, .....with the cockney accent, a la Ed Stewart on saturday morning radio,Hello Darlin, or in a frightfully posh voice, oh I say darling!
Doll is so sixties and sexist
Hun or hinny.......Aw haway, whay aye Thelma pet
Luv, luvvie, my lovely.........theres lovely your looking today isnt it
My Precious....sinister
And for my Dearest Darling Rachael..........Princess xxxxxxxxx
Terms of endearment, how sweet

12 Feb 2007

Quote by Geminifemale
Dear is deffinately patronising from a younger person

I like using Dear, I do it frequently. Especially if I know it'll get a rise cool

12 Feb 2007

Quote by Geminifemale
To me, babe is a piglet in the film of same name. Here in brum im always called bab which when you think of the accent is a horrible term
Dear is deffinately patronising from a younger person
Darling can conjour 2 different visions, .....with the cockney accent, a la Ed Stewart on saturday morning radio,Hello Darlin, or in a frightfully posh voice, oh I say darling!
Doll is so sixties and sexist
Hun or hinny.......Aw haway, whay aye Thelma pet
Luv, luvvie, my lovely.........theres lovely your looking today isnt it
My Precious....sinister
And for my Dearest Darling Rachael..........Princess xxxxxxxxx
Terms of endearment, how sweet

My Precious is only really considered sinister because of Golem and Lord of The Rings