What's your pet name?

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Mine is Dunny (like "sunny"), from Dan (like "fun", b/c of the way "a" is pronounced in Hebrew, like "ah"), my given name.

In Hebrew many pet names are w this "i" at the end of the given name.

I have other pet names derived from Dan, but this is the most used by all who know me.

Dunny :) he-he-he...
 

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I call my wife Captain Hot A$$.

What she calls me is neither complimentary nor suitable to be used in the presence of small children.

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No, Brady!! I meant the nickname you're given by family, friends, etc.

Ooooooooh, what a confusion I had caused!!
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I'm terribly sorry.

But "pet name" is (from a dictionary)
  1. A descriptive name added to or replacing the actual name of a person, place, or thing.
  2. A familiar or shortened form of a proper name.
3. To give a nickname to

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WriteRead said:
Mine is Dunny (like "sunny"), from Dan (like "fun", b/c of the way "a" is pronounced in Hebrew, like "ah"), my given name.

LOL! In Australia "dunny" is slang for toilet.
 

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I know, Adams!!! :ROFL:This was one of the first things I was told when arriving here, ha-ha-ha!!

Well, considering names like Dick, or Cock, mine is hardly noticeable, isn't it?
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WriteRead said:
"wench" like in what sense? In the modern one? He has some nerves, doesn't he, now? He-he-he!!

Dan

N ah, it's all said in good humour. After all I'm generally teasing him about something.

If he's actually mad at me, he calls me "Lorrie Jeanette!"

Just like my mother did.

And yes, I hide.

Of course, it takes -ALOT- to make him mad.
 

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WriteRead said:
I know, Adams!!! :ROFL:This was one of the first things I was told when arriving here, ha-ha-ha!!

Well, considering names like Dick, or Cock, mine is hardly noticeable, isn't it?
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Dan

True, be grateful your name isn't Richard Johnson or something oddball like "cockburn"
 

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I don't know if it's really a pet name, but most of my friends still call me "Animal."

The name dates back to 1985, when I was a young, dumb and very drunk soldier in the Enlisted Men's Club at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. Begin dumb young troopies, we were drinking beers and smashing the cans against our heads.

One of my buddies bet me that I couldn't smash one against the table. Well, never one to turn down a challenge - at least I was then - I put a can on the table, stood up, let out a whoop, and smashed my head down.

I snapped the cheap plywood table neatly in half. The guy sitting across from me jumped up and yelled, "Damn, Clark, you're a motherf***ing animal!"

They called me "Animal" after that, and it kind of stuck. My wife even calls me "Animal" now.
 

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My mother calls me 'Grinch' because when I was a toddler, I escaped my pen on Christmas Eve night, wandered into the living room, ripped off all the pretty paper and smashed a crystal bowl of glass ornaments.

Many years and many miles later I still can't outrun it. She calls me this all the time.
 

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My mother has always called me "Suzie Sunshine"--no idea why, my name isn't Suzie or any other derivative of it.

My husband calls me "babydoll", but mostly people call me a shortened version of my first name, which is fine to me because my first name always sounds more grown up than I feel.
 

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Cathy calls me "Dimples" because I'm cursed, er, uh, blessed with those charming li'l smile craters.

I call her "Peachpie" or "Peaches." I just blurted it out one day and it stuck.
 

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The confusion here is in terminology. A nickname is usually a shortened version of your name. Example: My real name is Kathryne; everybody calls me Kathy.

A "pet" name is usually a special name someone calls you other than your real name. And I think of it particularly as a special name couples give each other. Example: My husband calls me Hunny Bunny.
 

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Anthony calls me Fairy. All. The. Time. I think he's forgotten my real name. He also has no qualms about calling it out when we're separated in a store, for example. This causes strange looks.

My screen name when we first "met" (online) was violetfairy.
 

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I will never reveal my actual nickname....at least not while the sun is shining.
(note my nickname comes from work, rather than anything the Mrs. calls me. A$$hole is her preferred name for me at the moment)
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BradyH1861 said:
I will never reveal my actual nickname....at least no while the sun is shining.
(note my nickname comes from work, rather than anything the Mrs. calls me. A$$hole is her preferred name for me at the moment)
Brady H.

Hoser?
Flamer?
Waterboy?
Pissboy?

Am I close?

Rob :)
 

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My husband calls me "Bad Haley." As in, "What are we having for dinner tonight Bad Haley?" or "Where are you going, Bad Haley?"

I'm not actually bad, so I don't know when or how this got started. He also has the tendency to call me "Haley Ann" but, see, "Ann" isn't my middle name. I don't have a middle name.
 

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BradyH1861 said:
Nope....not close at all. :banana:

Does your nickname have a fire-related term? Fireball or Hot Stuff or uh, let's see Flaming Idiot(something maybe guys would say)?
 

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Then it must have a bad word in it that you can't print here.
 
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