I also have lived in the south my whole life and was an ADULT before I realized bubba was supposed to mean brother and wasn't just some hillbilly nickname.
I feel like this is a cultural thing though. I know several generations where I live that have called their sons Bubby, their daughters Sis or Sissy, and I’m now one of them, and I’m not even initially from here lol 🤷♀️ Granted though, I don’t say “hubby”, that’s a bit too saccharine for me lol, my husband and I have a chill relationship 🤣 it’s just “hun” or his name or “babe”
This is the answer. My great grandmother told me a story of when my great uncle Maurice was 3 yo and was playing in the yard and someone walking by asked him what his name was and he said his name was Bubba because that's what everyone called him and they thought it was funny because they hadn't realized he didn't know his name. This would have been around 100 years ago?
My uncle's name was Lawrence or Larry, and he had a speech impediment and he went to kindergarten (1947ish) and came home and indignantly said "mama, they called me Warence but my name is WARRY"
My dad's name is Joseph Lee. When he got in trouble, my grandma would say both names really fast. When he started kindergarten, he got into an argument with his teacher because she called him Joseph and he said no, his name was Josa. Josa Flee.
Oh I had a nephew who used to get really mad around the age of three if you used his real name, because he used to snark back to you that his name was Bubba!
My daughter's name is Caty, and we called her bug. Like ladybug, Catybug. When she was little, she refused to believe her middle name wasn't bug. My son has been Bubba for 21 years. I'm not saying he likes it, but he doesn't hate it.
I call my boy cat Bubba and my girl cat Sissy. I am not from the South. I don’t even know where I picked it up to be honest!
They have actual names, those are just a couple of their many nicknames!
Agreed - my grandparents refer to my mom, aunt and I as sis, they're more southern. It's probably also because they kept mixing up the names as we got older lol
I take it as a term of endearment, it's just part of redneck culture. However, also maybe sexist.
Hubby I only use when trying to annoy my husband with extra sweet, cheesy attention. Hubby bubby boo, to be precise!
Definitely, my whole southern family uses those terms but my northern family doesn't. Our grandma down south is also either memaw or mamaw, all soda is refers to as grabbing a coke, etc
Yes it's cultural and by that I mean it can even just be your family culture. My younger sisters grew up calling me sissy. But my step mom calls her daughter sissy because that kinda can happen when you have multiple children and refer to a particular child as sissy all the time because you're speaking to their siblings. She has other nicknames but sissy stuck in the rotation for her mom. I don't call her that because she's not sissy to me even though she's my step sister.
It's interesting to see how different families nickname their kids but I'm afraid you'll never escape sissy and bubba haha
Oh jesus no, i’d never do that lmao. To people i know, i call him his name. To his face, it’s “Hey babe, can you get that?” Or “Hey hun, can you grab that?” Irl though, i’m not a super heavy PDA or cutesy person, so like to someone else, i’d be like “Oh, *name*’s getting it”.
I guess this is a regional thing? I'm in the south and to me at least bubba/sissy are very common. My mom's brother was referred to Bubba as a kid (just by his sisters) and we grew up calling him Bubba instead of Uncle So and So. And he's not the only uncle/bubba I know- lots of families do it. I can't say the same for aunt and sissy but little sisters are referred to as sissy. My husband and I are already referring to my daughter's brother or sister due in a week as Bubby or Sissy when talking about him or her to my daughter but I don't think I'd call my kid Bubba into adulthood, though my mom will still very casually refer to my adult brother as Bub. Like, "Hey, Bub. How's it going?" Hubby is very weird to me though!
From the North East.
This is honestly a kinda of bizarre realization. I thought I was at least loosely familiar with all the common slang around the US.
I've never heard "Sissy" outside the context of a sexist insult.
I've never heard of "Bubba" outside the context of Forrest Gump.
That said, I can now see how both of these are related to their apparent origins.
It's not parents that start it, its the siblings. When they are little, they can't say "Sister", it comes out like "sissy"...when the kids say it all the time, the parents tend to pick it up too. Likewise, little kids have trouble pronouncing "brother", it comes out like "bubba". Again, when the kids and referring to their "bubba" all the time, parents tend to pick it up.
Interesting to know that this is a thing in English as well! Chinese parents sometimes refer to their daughter as “little sister” and their son as “little brother” even if they only had 1 kid. I think it’s somewhat regional but quite common.
Everything isn't teams this isn't an us against them thing , theres no reason to go BUT THEY DO IT TOOOI!!! We should be able to have conversations about just us.
But yeah had a guy call me shit like that before I shut it down, pet names just aren't my thing .
Blech. Worse than that is husbands and wives who call each other “dad” and “mom” respectively. My dad has started referring to my mom as “Mother” satirically to make fun of Mike Pence and even that as a joke makes me wanna puke.
That is definitely a Southern US thing (not sure what Pence’s excuse is). It’s completely common where I’m from and nobody would like at you twice for doing it. Especially if you’re from the older generations.
Oh sure, when they’re talking to me or my brothers. Just like if my dad was talking to me about his mother he’d say “Grandma”. Totally normal.
But in the bad cringey example, no, I mean when that’s what they call *each other* not around their kids or regardless if they have kids.
Husband talking to wife: “Mom I’m home, how was your day?”
Wife responds: Oh hey Dad, pretty stressful. How about you?” Like that 🤢
Its because they're the ones using it. No one else does this not even back in the day in the south this is purely a white thing, idk why everyone gets their panties in a twist when you call something white I personally cringe when I hear those names but that doesn't mean I think you're an idiot or a piece shit or something it's just a personal opinion idk people are getting their feelings hurt for. We're the only group that can't critize or laugh at ourselves.
Because you're wrong and literally dozens of people have proved that it's not just lower class white people saying it. It is everyone from every dynamic and background.
You know back in the day when there were race tensions you just went out and killed the black man that had offended you. Maybe try this the next time some white people are troubling you.
I hate it too and I want to add: I hate when people call their family DH (dear husband) DD (dear daughter) DS (dear son). It’s mostly used in groups for women trying to conceive but the “dear” really feels uncomfortable to me. It’s like ok I get it you’re fond of these people but like why do you need to call them “dear …”. Like your dear daughter as supposed to your unwanted daughter? It reminds me of the weirdos who use WAP as Worship And Pray. Like they’re just desperate to sound relevant by using acronyms but Hushand as H isn’t as cool as DH so they had to add the dear. It’s gross. It makes me physically recoil when I see or hear it.
Dont know. Grandson and daughter have names. But wife insist on Sissy boo and baby boy. I will sometimes say lets go bud but generally use their names. I get shorting the name not making it longer and she is not southern or eastern. I'm Alan was called Al for example.
I would have asked for a divorce the first time that woman let sissy boo slip through her lips, I'm sorry but that's the cringiest trashiest one yet, I loathe that.. I don't have all the words rn I need a minute to process.
it's not considered trashy anymore I personally just don't like them, but back in the day it was it was used by what would be considered the lowest class of people. Don't know the history that far back to know how they got to them and how the word became theirs, it's the same as how current day southerners took back the term redneck , my mother is 54 back when she was growing up it was considered a names the low class called their children.. some how we went from Elizabeths and Katherines to some breaking off into calling eachother chickadee ,sissy boo and bubby then we went to sarah and Hillary now we're back for round two with sissy and bubs I'm sure theres endless info on names throughout the times. I'm not claiming to have all the info.
I have a ten year old cousin who still calls his 16 year old sister “Sissy” when addressing her and it makes me want to stab my eardrums. It’s so infantile
“bubby” “bubs” “bubba” is more of a term of endearment imo.
but sissy and hubby can go.
in general i think it’s weird to teach your kids to call their siblings “brother” or “sister”/“sissy” and not their normal, regular names imo. could be cultural but it’s weird. my mom called my brother bubby from time to time, but we didn’t. we called him by his name.
I call my 9 year old daughter bubby/bub, and have since she was a baby. I have no idea how it started or where it came from lol. I’m gathering from these comments those are typically boy nicknames though? Interesting.
Oh well. She’s my little bub. Lol.
The regrets movie has a song gift from a bub so I call my son bub in reference to that since I think of rugrats babies. 🤷♀️ sue me I guess. My pet peeve is the judgement of parents in every aspect of choice they make on the internet…
I am a "Bubby" mom. I have no idea why I started calling him that because no one else in my family calls their kid bub or bubba or bubby. I just did and still do (he's 18). I used to call his brother "bubba" to differentiate, but he requested a different nickname, so I use the one he asked me to use instead.
I can see why it annoys you, though. "Sissy" and "hubby" annoy the hell out of me too.
It's a quote from a movie referring to a White baby, I'm saying it's a white thing, don't get your panties in a twist im mixed mostly white, I come in peace brother ✌️☮️
Found it - School Dance starring Katt Williams.
''That is a white child, that is Caucasian from the mountains of Caucasus. That is a Slavic baby, a viking from Iceland”
My grandma was a kindergarten teacher. Every year she taught, from 1978 through 2010, the she’d get parents who would not only request that their son go by the nickname Bubba at school, but claim that their son didn’t know his own name at 5 or 6 years old, because he was only ever called Bubba. She’d call a James by the nickname Jimmy, a Robert by the nickname Bob, or even call a child by their middle name instead of their first at a parent’s request, but she would not call half a dozen boys in the same class by the nickname Bubba. It was a different time. Public schools didn’t require teachers to act like customer service representatives then.
>Think we all know a few these "MAMAs"
I have literally never met anyone who calls their daughter "sissy" or their son "bubba" or "bub". I've met people who refer to their husband as their "hubby" but they didn't call them that to their face like it was their name. This is a really weird one.
This is definitely a southern thing. I'd never heard it growing up in Montana, moved to Missouri and everyone called kids this lol even my close friends called my kid this
I’ve always hated the term buba/bubby. Bub doesn’t bother me quite as much but I still don’t like. I can’t really explain why, it just sounds off to my brain. Never liked “hubby” either.
Although I will admit I like it when my husband refers to me as “wifey” lol. Double standards I guess. I think it’s the “ub” sound that gets me the most.
(I know I’m late, this was just recommended to me in my feed, and I typed all this before I realized the post is 2 days old. Sorry!)
It especially annoys me when siblings call each other “sister” and “brother” instead of their names, which is why I hate “Sissy” so much.
“Brother, did you read the news today?”
“Yes, sister. It’s wonderful!”
Who actually talks that way in real life, besides the Berenstain Bears!?
Ah yep, if I was mixed black and put something I don't like about black people in r/petpeeves it would go over super well. Put your jokes in a joke sub, dude.
You can also search black people up above and you'll see post about that , stop playing a victim there's a post of someone saying their pet peeves is black people.. but yeahh I guess me pointing out we call our kids goofy names a big fuckin deal ..
Ooh, double tap. I'm not a victim and didn't claim to be. Be racist to me all you want, it's your right. Especially when it's anonymous, it's not like there are any consequences right? But the idea that "those people did a bad thing so I'm excused as well" doesn't work if I'd also call that out too if I saw it. I don't follow this sub though, your post just happened across my feed. Also, not a big fuckin deal, just racist. Kind of a spectrum, there.
Um...This isn't a "white" thing. It's definitely prevalent in actual black families and has been for generations. I'm actually black (not white mixed) and we call our kids Bubba and Sis all the time. You're just looking for an excuse to play out some weird white fragility thing. Stop and do better.
I am one of them 🤣 being mixed with other things doesn't make me less of a white person than them, like that shit doesn't thin out. I am EVERYTHING I'm mixed with all at the same time. I don't see where I claimed I wasn't white in my reply??
Lmfao 🤦🏿 you're ridiculous. Probably need to learn about black people and some of your family before saying cultural things are exclusively white. SMH.
I'm a lady and no I'll keep it here. Why shouldn't we be able to say we don't like something we do and make jokes about us. I'll probably make another on my pet peeve with wyte peepole being humorless and our inability to admit we can be cringey and wrong sometimes.
Your sex is irrelevant here, I call everyone dude. You should be able to say whatever you want, wherever you want, and I should be able to criticize you for it. The reverse is true too. What you wrote came off to me as being hateful against a whole race of people, so I pointed it out.
Lol I’m perfectly calm… I’m not the one making a post on Reddit to rant about nicknames 🙃
OK so no nicknames allowed in your perfect world, duly noted.
Just say you hate Southern people...damn.
I was called Bubba by my entire family until I was a teenager and I've heard or/met many other people who used these terms. Its very normal.
Agree with you on this, minus the hubby thing. Don't see why it's such an ick when it's just a nickname like everything else. But as you said, everyone has their opinions
Or each spouse calls eachother "babe." I just think of babe the pig when they say that. Also when people refer to their children as kiddos. I can't stand those!
Assuming I’m “in my feelings” is pretty comical. I just pointed out the glaring racism. If your pet peeves revolve around a certain race, you’re a racist. It’s pretty simple. It doesn’t bother me that you’re a racist, it doesn’t bother me that you refuse to admit it either. All I did was call a spade a spade and you got defensive.
I'm mixed white can't be racist. That was just me thinking, I'm curious how something considered white trash/low class by just about everyone I know 50-70yo to now making it's way up to the young, midwestern and middle class and I mentioned white because it's the only group I see using those regularly. Don't recall hearing many poc using sissy and I'm certain that I have never heard any poc use bubba/bub/bubby, that's my working theory rn.
“I’m mixed white, can’t be racist”
Educated people don’t buy that line. The rest of the response I could take seriously if it wasn’t for the first line.
Here’s an example: I’m Greek and I hate Turks but it’s not racism because I’m half Turkish.
Does that not sound ridiculous?
In the previous comment you were “mixed”.
I can only hold a conversation with someone who moves the goalposts and gaslights me for so long.
I wish you the best ✌🏻
Yes mixed with white I am both things. I'm not less of either of the things I am because I'm mixed(kinda racist of you) if you have a problem with mixed you can just say that. So what I'm hearing is my explanation made Sense and you can't except you jumped the gun accussing me if something so now nitpick
I agree…it irritates me also!! My husband calls his grandson Bubby…I don’t know why, but I just get annoyed with it lol…I have a nickname for his grandson, but it’s a normal(I think? lol) nickname for a kid!
And hearing hubby and wifey just drives me up the wall…same with calling your wife “ole lady”…it just really annoys me!
If you're one of those people, please check in with those you call these nicknames and make sure it's okay with them and if they say no, please respect that boundary.
I've been called sissy in my family for 30 years (my dad & stepmom started calling me that when my little sister was born). I recently started to feel like no one even knew my actual name and realized that I didn't like that nickname. Last Christmas I had to gently ask my family to call me by my name. They have to my face, but who knows what they call me behind my back, that's a whole different issue.
Same!!!! I had one in my family also jail 🤣 very unfortunate, people forget their children have to grow up you've never met a lawyer or engineer named bubba have you? 🤦♀️
i… i call my daughter bub, bubba, and bubby… i have since she was born, she’s a toddler now. however i hate “sissy” and “hubby” i would never say those
Live in the South, and this is common. Doesn’t bother me at all lol
I also have lived in the south my whole life and was an ADULT before I realized bubba was supposed to mean brother and wasn't just some hillbilly nickname.
In my husbands family, everyone calls his great aunt mama. And they’re all like aunty/cousins. He doesn’t know who is what sometimes 😂
I feel like this is a cultural thing though. I know several generations where I live that have called their sons Bubby, their daughters Sis or Sissy, and I’m now one of them, and I’m not even initially from here lol 🤷♀️ Granted though, I don’t say “hubby”, that’s a bit too saccharine for me lol, my husband and I have a chill relationship 🤣 it’s just “hun” or his name or “babe”
This is the answer. My great grandmother told me a story of when my great uncle Maurice was 3 yo and was playing in the yard and someone walking by asked him what his name was and he said his name was Bubba because that's what everyone called him and they thought it was funny because they hadn't realized he didn't know his name. This would have been around 100 years ago?
My uncle's name was Lawrence or Larry, and he had a speech impediment and he went to kindergarten (1947ish) and came home and indignantly said "mama, they called me Warence but my name is WARRY"
My dad's name is Joseph Lee. When he got in trouble, my grandma would say both names really fast. When he started kindergarten, he got into an argument with his teacher because she called him Joseph and he said no, his name was Josa. Josa Flee.
Oh I had a nephew who used to get really mad around the age of three if you used his real name, because he used to snark back to you that his name was Bubba!
My daughter's name is Caty, and we called her bug. Like ladybug, Catybug. When she was little, she refused to believe her middle name wasn't bug. My son has been Bubba for 21 years. I'm not saying he likes it, but he doesn't hate it.
I call my boy cat Bubba and my girl cat Sissy. I am not from the South. I don’t even know where I picked it up to be honest! They have actual names, those are just a couple of their many nicknames!
I’m from the midwest haha, so even less south!
From the Midwest too!
Midwest high five haha!
Yeah. My dog is bubby, bubba, bubs, bubbus, etc. The cats are "the bruddas" or "the boys". Midwest.
Us too! My wife and I are from the Northeast.
Same. My cat named Vader is also called Bubba or Bubby when the mood strikes. Lol
My mom called my brother "bubba" growing up and now that's what I call him, too 🏃
Agreed - my grandparents refer to my mom, aunt and I as sis, they're more southern. It's probably also because they kept mixing up the names as we got older lol I take it as a term of endearment, it's just part of redneck culture. However, also maybe sexist. Hubby I only use when trying to annoy my husband with extra sweet, cheesy attention. Hubby bubby boo, to be precise!
Definitely, my whole southern family uses those terms but my northern family doesn't. Our grandma down south is also either memaw or mamaw, all soda is refers to as grabbing a coke, etc
We’re midwest and one of my husband’s grandmothers was Mema!
I live in the deep south and I'm the only person I know with a memaw. I didn't realize how common it was until I was older.
Yes it's cultural and by that I mean it can even just be your family culture. My younger sisters grew up calling me sissy. But my step mom calls her daughter sissy because that kinda can happen when you have multiple children and refer to a particular child as sissy all the time because you're speaking to their siblings. She has other nicknames but sissy stuck in the rotation for her mom. I don't call her that because she's not sissy to me even though she's my step sister. It's interesting to see how different families nickname their kids but I'm afraid you'll never escape sissy and bubba haha
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>“babe” This is worse, can we not??? lol
Or or or As it’s my marriage, and it’s only in discussion between him and I I’ll just keep doing it lmfao 🤣
I have friends that will say "babe is on the way" "babe is getting us drinks" gahhhhh! Lol
Oh jesus no, i’d never do that lmao. To people i know, i call him his name. To his face, it’s “Hey babe, can you get that?” Or “Hey hun, can you grab that?” Irl though, i’m not a super heavy PDA or cutesy person, so like to someone else, i’d be like “Oh, *name*’s getting it”.
If my GF calls me by my name and not babe of something like that I'm probably in trouble
Really??? We've used "babe" for literally decades!!!! 🤷 Works for us
Same with us. We're in our early 60s married nearly 45 years That's our pet names Never sweetie or honey
This is a cultural thing. I've experienced it primarily in the Southern USA.
I guess this is a regional thing? I'm in the south and to me at least bubba/sissy are very common. My mom's brother was referred to Bubba as a kid (just by his sisters) and we grew up calling him Bubba instead of Uncle So and So. And he's not the only uncle/bubba I know- lots of families do it. I can't say the same for aunt and sissy but little sisters are referred to as sissy. My husband and I are already referring to my daughter's brother or sister due in a week as Bubby or Sissy when talking about him or her to my daughter but I don't think I'd call my kid Bubba into adulthood, though my mom will still very casually refer to my adult brother as Bub. Like, "Hey, Bub. How's it going?" Hubby is very weird to me though!
From the North East. This is honestly a kinda of bizarre realization. I thought I was at least loosely familiar with all the common slang around the US. I've never heard "Sissy" outside the context of a sexist insult. I've never heard of "Bubba" outside the context of Forrest Gump. That said, I can now see how both of these are related to their apparent origins.
People WHO use the word THAT when they should be using the word WHO.
You got me bro 🤣🤣
I never see anybody do this correctly
Does Bubby count? That’s what I call my son and he’s 27. 😂
that reminds me of that Wizard of Oz scene in Diary of a Wimpy kid.
God, Manny is the first child I wish I could snap from this earth. That little shit can fuck off
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Respectfully 😬yes..
I can live with that.
That's what my daughter calls her big brother
I didn't plan to start calling my son Bubba, it just happened.
You should plan on stopping.
Nah, I'm good.
You should plan on growing up 😂
You should plan on minding your own business and let others take care of theirs.
But, but. They think it's wrong and need to let us know how trashy we all sound!!!!🤬
What the fuck does it matter to you? You more than likely do shit that I would find annoying, but I don’t gatekeep you about it. Eat shit.
This is a peet peeve sub bubby, the fact it matters to me is the point look up the definition and come back sissy boo .
It's not parents that start it, its the siblings. When they are little, they can't say "Sister", it comes out like "sissy"...when the kids say it all the time, the parents tend to pick it up too. Likewise, little kids have trouble pronouncing "brother", it comes out like "bubba". Again, when the kids and referring to their "bubba" all the time, parents tend to pick it up.
I’ve heard plenty of people start it with their children here in the Southern US. It’s annoying as hell.
They do start it, I've known people that have one child and they still use it.
My dad used to call me the dog faced boy
My dad called me scooter and creep, I'll take all three of these over sissy any day..
Interesting to know that this is a thing in English as well! Chinese parents sometimes refer to their daughter as “little sister” and their son as “little brother” even if they only had 1 kid. I think it’s somewhat regional but quite common.
is it a loophole if i TYPE hubby bc it's shorter and easier to type but i actually never SAY hubby?
I call my boys papa, but it means potato. They're my potatoes lol
To others it would sound like you’re calling them dad.
Yes, but I don’t see it any different as other racial groups calling their daughters “momma”. I think it’s all weird
Everything isn't teams this isn't an us against them thing , theres no reason to go BUT THEY DO IT TOOOI!!! We should be able to have conversations about just us. But yeah had a guy call me shit like that before I shut it down, pet names just aren't my thing .
I didn’t say it was an us vs them thing. I said every cultural group has some version of it. I think all versions of it are weird.
I hate all of this and I’ll add on “mama bear” in reference to being mad. Its annoying for no particular reason lol
Can't stand that shitttt. "This MAMA bear right here" 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Blech. Worse than that is husbands and wives who call each other “dad” and “mom” respectively. My dad has started referring to my mom as “Mother” satirically to make fun of Mike Pence and even that as a joke makes me wanna puke.
My dad does this as a joke too. He calls me my mom “mama” in this gross voice 😂 it’s hilarious
That is definitely a Southern US thing (not sure what Pence’s excuse is). It’s completely common where I’m from and nobody would like at you twice for doing it. Especially if you’re from the older generations.
Is this not normal?? My mom use to call my father "dad" because that's what I know him as. Or are you talking about a different circumstance?
Oh sure, when they’re talking to me or my brothers. Just like if my dad was talking to me about his mother he’d say “Grandma”. Totally normal. But in the bad cringey example, no, I mean when that’s what they call *each other* not around their kids or regardless if they have kids. Husband talking to wife: “Mom I’m home, how was your day?” Wife responds: Oh hey Dad, pretty stressful. How about you?” Like that 🤢
When I was in elementary school there was a girl whose parents referred to each other as Mr(last name) and Mrs(last name) and it weirded me TF out.
Parents who call each other “mum” or “dad” are the worst! 😂 How are they ever going to have sex again?! Your dad sounds hilarious though.
The fact that you made this a race thing says more about you than them js
Its because they're the ones using it. No one else does this not even back in the day in the south this is purely a white thing, idk why everyone gets their panties in a twist when you call something white I personally cringe when I hear those names but that doesn't mean I think you're an idiot or a piece shit or something it's just a personal opinion idk people are getting their feelings hurt for. We're the only group that can't critize or laugh at ourselves.
Grew up in the south. Black people absolutely get the nickname Bubba as children from their parents- I knew 2. Also, Bubba Gump in fiction.
Hubby is not a white thing. Sissy and Bubby maybe. But Hubby is not exclusive to white people. Not sure where in the world you got that idea.
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Because you're wrong and literally dozens of people have proved that it's not just lower class white people saying it. It is everyone from every dynamic and background.
Could you maybe spend some time learning about paragraphs and commas, before you come at so called "poor white trash southerners???
You know back in the day when there were race tensions you just went out and killed the black man that had offended you. Maybe try this the next time some white people are troubling you.
Wtf you talking about bubba 🤣
Never heard any of that. But I wouldn't like it either.
Think is just a US thing.
I'm from NYC/NJ and have never heard any of this except for hubby.
It's started as low class southern thing then just a southern thing I'm in the Midwest and it's everywhere now it's making it's way up just you wait.
My mom calls me Buddha Boy because I was fucking FAT as a baby, what do you think of that?
I mean that’s honestly kinda cute lol
Not in Basingstoke we don’t.
Lucky you.
I hate it too and I want to add: I hate when people call their family DH (dear husband) DD (dear daughter) DS (dear son). It’s mostly used in groups for women trying to conceive but the “dear” really feels uncomfortable to me. It’s like ok I get it you’re fond of these people but like why do you need to call them “dear …”. Like your dear daughter as supposed to your unwanted daughter? It reminds me of the weirdos who use WAP as Worship And Pray. Like they’re just desperate to sound relevant by using acronyms but Hushand as H isn’t as cool as DH so they had to add the dear. It’s gross. It makes me physically recoil when I see or hear it.
TIL white people use “bubby” for boys? Bubbe means “grandmother” in Yiddish.
Dont know. Grandson and daughter have names. But wife insist on Sissy boo and baby boy. I will sometimes say lets go bud but generally use their names. I get shorting the name not making it longer and she is not southern or eastern. I'm Alan was called Al for example.
I would have asked for a divorce the first time that woman let sissy boo slip through her lips, I'm sorry but that's the cringiest trashiest one yet, I loathe that.. I don't have all the words rn I need a minute to process.
how is it trashy? like can you explain your reasoning
it's not considered trashy anymore I personally just don't like them, but back in the day it was it was used by what would be considered the lowest class of people. Don't know the history that far back to know how they got to them and how the word became theirs, it's the same as how current day southerners took back the term redneck , my mother is 54 back when she was growing up it was considered a names the low class called their children.. some how we went from Elizabeths and Katherines to some breaking off into calling eachother chickadee ,sissy boo and bubby then we went to sarah and Hillary now we're back for round two with sissy and bubs I'm sure theres endless info on names throughout the times. I'm not claiming to have all the info.
you're an idiot.
I have a ten year old cousin who still calls his 16 year old sister “Sissy” when addressing her and it makes me want to stab my eardrums. It’s so infantile
“bubby” “bubs” “bubba” is more of a term of endearment imo. but sissy and hubby can go. in general i think it’s weird to teach your kids to call their siblings “brother” or “sister”/“sissy” and not their normal, regular names imo. could be cultural but it’s weird. my mom called my brother bubby from time to time, but we didn’t. we called him by his name.
I call my 9 year old daughter bubby/bub, and have since she was a baby. I have no idea how it started or where it came from lol. I’m gathering from these comments those are typically boy nicknames though? Interesting. Oh well. She’s my little bub. Lol.
The regrets movie has a song gift from a bub so I call my son bub in reference to that since I think of rugrats babies. 🤷♀️ sue me I guess. My pet peeve is the judgement of parents in every aspect of choice they make on the internet…
Your life is blessed if this is your worst pet peeve
Definitely not my worst, but I am blessed.
Yeah your privilege and lack of being raised properly shows lol
"Sissy" in particular is my ick. That's not your sister, that's your daughter, call her by her name
Yeah that’s really weird lol
These words arent whats cringing you out homie, its the people who say them. As soon as I read this I was reminded of ppl I hate
Damn, I'm a sissy....
I am a "Bubby" mom. I have no idea why I started calling him that because no one else in my family calls their kid bub or bubba or bubby. I just did and still do (he's 18). I used to call his brother "bubba" to differentiate, but he requested a different nickname, so I use the one he asked me to use instead. I can see why it annoys you, though. "Sissy" and "hubby" annoy the hell out of me too.
>We all know a few of these "MAMAs" We do? Are you sure?
If you're in the US id find it hard to believe you've never heard this.
I’m still confused by Caucasus - a mountain range on the border of Europe and Asia.
It's a quote from a movie referring to a White baby, I'm saying it's a white thing, don't get your panties in a twist im mixed mostly white, I come in peace brother ✌️☮️
My panties aren’t in a twist, I was literally confused by the geographical reference.
Movie quote, can't recall the name of the movie at the moment.
Found it - School Dance starring Katt Williams. ''That is a white child, that is Caucasian from the mountains of Caucasus. That is a Slavic baby, a viking from Iceland”
Was surprised to see in the comments that this is a southern USA thing. I think it’s a thing in Newfoundland too
My grandma was a kindergarten teacher. Every year she taught, from 1978 through 2010, the she’d get parents who would not only request that their son go by the nickname Bubba at school, but claim that their son didn’t know his own name at 5 or 6 years old, because he was only ever called Bubba. She’d call a James by the nickname Jimmy, a Robert by the nickname Bob, or even call a child by their middle name instead of their first at a parent’s request, but she would not call half a dozen boys in the same class by the nickname Bubba. It was a different time. Public schools didn’t require teachers to act like customer service representatives then.
“Hubby / hubs” is god awful and doesn’t even make sense. The word isn’t “hubsband” to begin with so shortening it to that is stupid.
I grew up in the south and the sissy/bubby thing was used in the lowest of low income households ime “Welfare-speak” is what we called it
I despise parents calling their young daughters “Mama” or “Little Mama.” Brainwashing little girls into feeling they have to be mothers.
>Think we all know a few these "MAMAs" I have literally never met anyone who calls their daughter "sissy" or their son "bubba" or "bub". I've met people who refer to their husband as their "hubby" but they didn't call them that to their face like it was their name. This is a really weird one.
This is definitely a southern thing. I'd never heard it growing up in Montana, moved to Missouri and everyone called kids this lol even my close friends called my kid this
Omg I hate sissy lol I grew up with that
They end up with domestic violence charges. Watch the news.
I call my kid booger and shitass
I don't know why "hubby" makes me cringe so hard. Just typing it here was unpleasant. It's such an innocuous word, why does it bother me?
Bubba 🤮 nope. Hate that one sooo so much.
I’ve always hated the term buba/bubby. Bub doesn’t bother me quite as much but I still don’t like. I can’t really explain why, it just sounds off to my brain. Never liked “hubby” either. Although I will admit I like it when my husband refers to me as “wifey” lol. Double standards I guess. I think it’s the “ub” sound that gets me the most.
(I know I’m late, this was just recommended to me in my feed, and I typed all this before I realized the post is 2 days old. Sorry!) It especially annoys me when siblings call each other “sister” and “brother” instead of their names, which is why I hate “Sissy” so much. “Brother, did you read the news today?” “Yes, sister. It’s wonderful!” Who actually talks that way in real life, besides the Berenstain Bears!?
Racist much?
You know you don’t have any real problems when this is what bothers you
Yeah that's called racism.
I'm mixed white. This is a white people thing and it's goofy, learn to laugh at yourself .
Ah yep, if I was mixed black and put something I don't like about black people in r/petpeeves it would go over super well. Put your jokes in a joke sub, dude.
You can also search black people up above and you'll see post about that , stop playing a victim there's a post of someone saying their pet peeves is black people.. but yeahh I guess me pointing out we call our kids goofy names a big fuckin deal ..
Ooh, double tap. I'm not a victim and didn't claim to be. Be racist to me all you want, it's your right. Especially when it's anonymous, it's not like there are any consequences right? But the idea that "those people did a bad thing so I'm excused as well" doesn't work if I'd also call that out too if I saw it. I don't follow this sub though, your post just happened across my feed. Also, not a big fuckin deal, just racist. Kind of a spectrum, there.
Um...This isn't a "white" thing. It's definitely prevalent in actual black families and has been for generations. I'm actually black (not white mixed) and we call our kids Bubba and Sis all the time. You're just looking for an excuse to play out some weird white fragility thing. Stop and do better.
Maybe they should stop so fragile then?
You're the fragile one here. You claimed being one of them until you started talking to a black guy. Lmao.
I am one of them 🤣 being mixed with other things doesn't make me less of a white person than them, like that shit doesn't thin out. I am EVERYTHING I'm mixed with all at the same time. I don't see where I claimed I wasn't white in my reply??
Lmfao 🤦🏿 you're ridiculous. Probably need to learn about black people and some of your family before saying cultural things are exclusively white. SMH.
I'm a lady and no I'll keep it here. Why shouldn't we be able to say we don't like something we do and make jokes about us. I'll probably make another on my pet peeve with wyte peepole being humorless and our inability to admit we can be cringey and wrong sometimes.
Your sex is irrelevant here, I call everyone dude. You should be able to say whatever you want, wherever you want, and I should be able to criticize you for it. The reverse is true too. What you wrote came off to me as being hateful against a whole race of people, so I pointed it out.
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Damn you really de-aged here
omg right??? up until this point i thought this was like a 45 year old but it's a teenager hahahah
God forbid people use nicknames. What’s next on your chopping block…. Sweetie, babe, honey, buddy?
Just a personal opinion sugar booger, calm down. But yeah those can go aswell .
Lol I’m perfectly calm… I’m not the one making a post on Reddit to rant about nicknames 🙃 OK so no nicknames allowed in your perfect world, duly noted.
This is a petpeeves sub , that's one of my pet peeves. You sure you're okay?
Just say you hate Southern people...damn. I was called Bubba by my entire family until I was a teenager and I've heard or/met many other people who used these terms. Its very normal.
I honestly disagree with bubba/bub but agree on the others, but to each their own.
Agree with you on this, minus the hubby thing. Don't see why it's such an ick when it's just a nickname like everything else. But as you said, everyone has their opinions
I call my daughter bubba all the time. Sissy is the weird one to me
Racist
Or each spouse calls eachother "babe." I just think of babe the pig when they say that. Also when people refer to their children as kiddos. I can't stand those!
You took me by the haaaand, maaaaade me a maaaan, that one night^(one night) you made everything alright^(right)
All I could think of too
My husband and I can’t stand “babe” Kiddos is annoying too.
Nah you're off base, I love both. Shit I call my adult friends bub all the time
That's like ... your opinion bubs 🤷♀️
Why you tryna hate on our simple and fun terms of endearment....bubs
Its a petpeeve sub it's my personal peeve 😖 there's no hate here sissy booboo bear 😘
Love you bubby
MAMA wuv cubby too🥰🥰🥰 give literleigh and m'kinleigh big MAMA bear hugs for me kiddo
Lmao, okay I'm 100% with you on these names
What a shitty pet peeve
Why you mad mckartyleigh? I need big MAMA bear hugs??
😅
I get the hubby, but are you saying you don't like when children call their siblings Bubba or sissy and then the parents call them by that nickname?
They don’t like it when the parents call their kids those nicknames
Kinda racist. It didn’t have to be but you made it that way.
I never said anything thing was wrong with being any of those things, if that how you interpreted it that's on you.
The subreddit is literally called “pet peeves”. The irony here could keep my clothes tidy for a year.
Yeah so why you in your feelings about someone sharing a petpeeve
Assuming I’m “in my feelings” is pretty comical. I just pointed out the glaring racism. If your pet peeves revolve around a certain race, you’re a racist. It’s pretty simple. It doesn’t bother me that you’re a racist, it doesn’t bother me that you refuse to admit it either. All I did was call a spade a spade and you got defensive.
I'm mixed white can't be racist. That was just me thinking, I'm curious how something considered white trash/low class by just about everyone I know 50-70yo to now making it's way up to the young, midwestern and middle class and I mentioned white because it's the only group I see using those regularly. Don't recall hearing many poc using sissy and I'm certain that I have never heard any poc use bubba/bub/bubby, that's my working theory rn.
“I’m mixed white, can’t be racist” Educated people don’t buy that line. The rest of the response I could take seriously if it wasn’t for the first line. Here’s an example: I’m Greek and I hate Turks but it’s not racism because I’m half Turkish. Does that not sound ridiculous?
How do I hate white people if I'm white?
In the previous comment you were “mixed”. I can only hold a conversation with someone who moves the goalposts and gaslights me for so long. I wish you the best ✌🏻
Yes mixed with white I am both things. I'm not less of either of the things I am because I'm mixed(kinda racist of you) if you have a problem with mixed you can just say that. So what I'm hearing is my explanation made Sense and you can't except you jumped the gun accussing me if something so now nitpick
Bubba makes me want to vomit, so disgusting.
I loathe the term hubby. However, occasionally I call my daughter sis and both of my sons bubba or bubby. Yikes!
Yesssss, but still better than calling their spouse "mother"or "father", I really hate that.
I agree…it irritates me also!! My husband calls his grandson Bubby…I don’t know why, but I just get annoyed with it lol…I have a nickname for his grandson, but it’s a normal(I think? lol) nickname for a kid! And hearing hubby and wifey just drives me up the wall…same with calling your wife “ole lady”…it just really annoys me!
If you're one of those people, please check in with those you call these nicknames and make sure it's okay with them and if they say no, please respect that boundary. I've been called sissy in my family for 30 years (my dad & stepmom started calling me that when my little sister was born). I recently started to feel like no one even knew my actual name and realized that I didn't like that nickname. Last Christmas I had to gently ask my family to call me by my name. They have to my face, but who knows what they call me behind my back, that's a whole different issue.
& doggos
Yep can't forget about their ✨fur babies ✨🐶😍❤️🤮
It’s so childish
fr. it reminds me of when couples baby talk to each other. i was guilty of this until about 5 years ago. i used to call my bf DeeDoo.
Pet names are so humiliating
That's a millennial thing. The boomer parents use Pal,Sue🕺, Sally, Old Lady
I knew of a kid who was named Bubba. No nicknames for him! He ended up in jail.
Same!!!! I had one in my family also jail 🤣 very unfortunate, people forget their children have to grow up you've never met a lawyer or engineer named bubba have you? 🤦♀️
Bubby makes me gag
i… i call my daughter bub, bubba, and bubby… i have since she was born, she’s a toddler now. however i hate “sissy” and “hubby” i would never say those
I call my cat Bubba. Or bub. But children? Never
I can’t stand it. So cringe.