The Missus...

LincolnHawk

The boss

In the first episode of Curb, Larry rers to Cheryl as "Hitler" on a phone to Jeff...overheard by his orthodox Jewish parents.

Deub

I say "girlfriend" followed by "I am the one wearing the trousers but she chooses the color and type".

Malari

mad muffin wrote: »

Fist cushion or cock holster…

Cockpit? :pac:

He can be the pilot

EndaHonesty

Conor you should call her "only person you've had sex with" or "soulmate"...

DoozerT6

The Leader of the Opposition

Esel

Connor, for your use, 'The Senior Partner'?

Deub

Deub wrote: »

I say "girlfriend" followed by "I am the one wearing the trousers but she chooses the color and type".

Was it Denis Thatcher who, on being asked who wore the trousers in the house, said "I do...and I also wash and iron them"?

IamtheWalrus

I call mine 'the slut'. Too much? Yea, so is she.






Who am I kidding. I'm single.

AllForIt

Deleted User wrote: »

...I just don't like that term.

Refer to her by her title "my girlfriend/partner/wife", refer her by her name, use a term of endearment, use a well known literary reference like Rumpole's "SWMBO"...anything but "the Missus".

A symptom of a by-gone era when the wife was a slave to do her masters bidding. Which still goes on in some parts of the world, especially, Roscommon.

lawred2

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Which, as Cork slang has come up, really refers to an anthem at Sir Henrys.

Thanks for the memories

andekwarhola

One can barely make out the thread such is the clamour of Sir Lancelots.

Murrisk

Down to the couple, really. I've no issues with being called the Missus. Just a casual term. I say "my fella", he sometimes calls me "the bird". It's all light-hearted.

noaddedsugar

My husband calls me geebag as a term of endearment. On our honeymoon he nipped out to get something and on his return proudly presented me with a personalised necklace with geebag written on it. He thinks he is very funny :rolleyes:

FizzleSticks

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Murrisk

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

This is my current partner.

Yes! Always makes me wonder when people use that phrasing.

AllForIt

FizzleSticks wrote: »

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Hubby if he's tubby, wifey if she's erm ...dicey !

IamtheWalrus

noaddedsugar wrote: »

My husband calls me geebag as a term of endearment. On our honeymoon he nipped out to get xtra large sheaths and on his return proudly presented me with a personalised necklace with geebag written on it. He thinks he is very funny :rolleyes:

fyp giggidy

Murrisk

Deleted User wrote: »

That's pretty good, at least it's inventive. The Missus is just so hackneyed.

We all use hackneyed terms every day. Well most of us do. Unless you're looking for a job at the New York Review of Books, I don't see the problem.

Mrs OBumble

Ciaran_B wrote: »

My Dad introduces my mother as '<her name>, my current wife'. Don't know how she hasn't divorced him by now.

Mr O'Bumble has been known to introduce me as "My future ex-wife" - which he know's I'm not that fond of.

But the day he calls me "the handbrake", he will be moving out. Anything else I can tolerate.

Valentina

I call him The Dude.

Yourself isit

I like to call my wife "the present mrs isit".

This confuses everybody as that's not my real surname.

harry Bailey esq

[Deleted User] wrote: »

...I just don't like that term.

Refer to her by her title "my girlfriend/partner/wife", refer her by her name, use a term of endearment, use a well known literary reference like Rumpole's "SWMBO"...anything but "the Missus".

I use it,but it's a colloquialism,outside Dublin 'beur' is common,that's traveller slang,in Waterford you'll hear fellas say 'the lac' not sure where that came from, in West Cork/South Kerry where if memory serves me correctly you come from yourself fellas would often use 'herself above' or 'herself below' depending on what end of town they happen to be drinking in,my granda came from a place called kealkil near Bantry and that's what he'd say,and it's still in use around there.Id also occasionally use the term 'me bird' and that's English in origin.Even though we dominate Kerry and Cork these days when you are it comes to hurling and football we're still jackeens at the end of the day! The older generation would say 'the moth',ive never heard that used outside Dublin.

M5

The domestic controller

Ursus Horribilis

I can't stand partner for some reason.

Pac1Man

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

I can't stand partner for some reason.

Maybe you two should talk more. A little communication goes a long way in improving relationships.

Badly Drunk Boy

I sometimes used to refer to an ex as "Yer wan" if she wasn't present. This often caused people to say "That's a terrible way to refer to her!".

I'd respond by saying "What? It's her name. Yvonne".

LordSutch

My missus is (thinks) she's my boss!

...always giving orders like I'm her slave, but that's alright as I'm usually one step ahead of her, so when the order comes to put out the bins (or whatever), its already done, ergo she must then grant my request, be it a cup of tea, a beer, or whatever :-)

harry Bailey esq

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

I can't stand partner for some reason.

Agreed. The term partner implies that both parties in the relationship are equal.Not on my fuppin watch!

harry Bailey esq

LordSutch wrote: »

My missus is (thinks) she's my boss!

...always giving orders like I'm her slave, but that's alright as I'm usually one step ahead of her, so when the order comes to put out the bins (or whatever), its already done, ergo she must then grant my request, be it a cup of tea, a beer, or whatever :-)

See my post above.I think the fictional philosopher Homer Jay Simpson put it best when he coined the phrase 'I hear digging,but I don't hear chopping'

Beta Ray Bill

The Battle Engine
The War Office
The Dragon
She who must be obeyed
The oul ball and chain


All good names me thinks!

Boom_Bap

The Ball & Chain is a favorite of mine.
I'd use 'missus' on here a bit rather than OH but not sure if I use it in real like.
But what I call her in real life couldn't be repeated here as it's dodgy.

sbsquarepants

Deleted User wrote: »

...I just don't like that term.

Refer to her by her title "my girlfriend/partner/wife", refer her by her name, use a term of endearment, use a well known literary reference like Rumpole's "SWMBO"...anything but "the Missus".

I have a simple solution - don't use it!

I call my missus, my missus all the time.

In my best Rumpole voice "Your dislike of my vernacular shan't change that old boy":)

Bambi985

I like "the missus", it's cute and casual and lighthearted and understood by everyone. I'd just call him "my boyfriend" or "my fella" or "himself" or whatever, I mean does it really matter?

When I hear "partner" I'll often realise that it's because the person is gay and doesn't want to specify gender.

sbsquarepants

Bambi985 wrote: »

When I hear "partner" I'll often realise that it's because the person is gay and doesn't want to specify gender.

Partner defo sounds gay to me.

The moth is a good old fashioned irish term (from maith an cailín I believe).

Those are definitely my terms of choice, the missus or the moth....or the bitch if I'm hanging with my hommies, keeping it real n shít.:D

Burial.

I call her by her name because all names matter. #blacklivesmatter

Mena Mitty

The man I'm married to refers to me as:

The wife
My woman
The cook
My Queen
The briar
The old lady
The young wan
The woman I'm married to.

What he calls me behind my back I'll never know.
(No cctv salesman calls pleeze)

Glenster

I call my girlfriend my missus.

But I've always called anyone I'm going out with my missus though.

It bypasses any "what are we" discussions by ironically referring to anyone you're sleeping with as your missus.

Glenster

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Agreed. The term partner implies that both parties in the relationship are equal.Not on my fuppin watch!

Agreed. I might start using 'Kitchen Lady' going forward.

Herself
The missus
The wife

I disagree that 'my' swapped in for 'the' above is an improvement, very home counties between the wars sounding to me.

Before we were married we had that awful phase where girlfriend wasn't right and partner is forever to be dismissed as absolutely pofaced so I went through a period of just calling her my lover, with mixed results. A term really only ever used by tabloids in the nineties, well overdue for reclamation imo.

kunst nugget

Penis Mitten is the one I'd go with. Much better than Missus.

harry Bailey esq

Glenster wrote: »

Agreed. I might start using 'Kitchen Lady' going forward.

Or scullery maid,both suffice. Boom bap keeps things simple and calls his a dishwasher,that he owns. I wouldn't get away with that in my gaff,but he's a mod so she let's him away with it. Right enough too I reckon.

Boom_Bap

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Or scullery maid,both suffice. Boom bap keeps things simple and calls his a dishwasher,that he owns. I wouldn't get away with that in my gaff,but he's a mod so she let's him away with it. Right enough too I reckon.

My mod powers do not extend past the keyboard, apart from when I talk about polishing my banhammer. But that's a euphemism.

c_man

I use the term "herself" and she can call me whatever :pac: except "partner", that's just bloody awful modern sh!te. We're in love, not lawyers who founded their own practice.

harry Bailey esq

Boom_Bap wrote: »

My mod powers do not extend past the keyboard, apart from when I talk about polishing my banhammer. But that's a euphemism.

If you use it often it enough,it doesn't need to be polished or greased up.Good maintainance keeps the banghammer in perfect running order.

_Kaiser_

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

I can't stand partner for some reason.

I'd be the same.. to me it sounds like an overly sanitised term used to describe someone in a way that won't cause offence to whoever you're describing them too :rolleyes:

Wifey, missus or OH would be ones I'd use, depending on context and the stage of the relationship.

conorhal

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I'd be the same.. to me it sounds like an overly sanitised term used to describe someone in a way that won't cause offence to whoever you're describing them too :rolleyes:

Wifey, missus or OH would be ones I'd use, depending on context and the stage of the relationship.

I hate the term too, it sounds either vaguely smug or like you run a business together. It's such a limp, vague term with little context, a bit like the time I once introduced my flatmate to a relative as 'this is the guy I live with...', pearls were clutched I tell ya!

Stephen Gawking

The Chief Of Staff.

gammy_knees

When she's in company with me she's "The Commander in Chief" or "The Chancellor of the Exchequer".
When I'm with the lads she's "My future ex wife".

Malari

Before we were married, my momma used to introduce us as "my daughter and her partner" which I found jarring. I think she just wanted to convey that this was the person I was living with for 10 years, not just some bloke I'd been seeing for a few weeks.

I think he just calls me by my name when referring to me. And he calls me by a pet name that doesn't need to be mentioned here :cool: