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What are some British terms of endearment?

What are some american terms of endearment that British people don't use?

  • Not like as in boyfriend and girlfriend, but just between friends. For example, my British friend always calls me poppy and love, and I was wondering what terms we use that are only ...show more

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    There is really only one all-purpose term you need in Britain these days, and that is "mate". Everyone is "mate" - the barman who gets you your drink: "thanks mate", someone whose foot you step on in the Tube: "sorry mate", your best friend you haven't seen for years: "mate, how you doing?".

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We are British. We do not use any terms of endearment

David S

Why don't you ask this in the US section then? If we don't use them, we aren't going to know about them are we?

Zara

We tend not to use the term 'douchebag' as a term of endearment as much as the americans seem to do.

Spudbucket

The one that comes to mind is "hon" or "hun", which we certainly don't use. "Love" tends to be a northern English thing... I wonder where your friend is from? It can be quite regional. Most of my relatives on my father's side are north Derbyshire people. He was actually born in west London close to where I am now, then his father died very young 26 years before I was born, Grandma remarried to a north Derbyshire coal miner and had 3 more children to add to Dad and his sister - my half-aunt and half-uncles. (How she met him I have no idea and now they're both dead I will never know!) The family moved up there and Dad came back down to London when his employer relocated him, he met Mum, they married and now I'm here telling you all this. So I spent many happy Christmases in north Derbyshire with all my aunts and uncles and cousins, and the term of endearment EVERYONE uses in that town is "duck", pronounced "dook". I've been called that by cashiers in the local supermarket, and when I last went a few years ago to be at a cousin's wedding, the church minister remarked on it. (That's British Methodism for you - their ministers tend to move around quite frequently!) In the south of England, Daniel R is right - "mate" works every time.

Clive

Im british and ive never heard anyone call someone poppy, maybe poppet about 50 years ago but not poppy.

Matthew

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