Better word for the stable hitch -No more "My Partner"

dohouch · 13-09-2022 12:00am #1

Partner is altogether entirely grand for firms of solicitors & and similar shysters but I find it a very poor fit when we are talking about emotionally involved intimate relationships.

I've had this itch, for finding a less emotionally cold word to replace "My Partner"

Let's go. 🤔 A new word brings a new world.!

Me squeeze, me heat, me heat-him,

me heat-her, . Me hug-her/-him.

Not great, but am all ears👂🦻🍆

Gremlinertia · 13-09-2022 12:02am

D'udder one/wan

13-09-2022 12:10am

My better half /thread

dotsman · 13-09-2022 12:12am

The ball & chain

Curse These Metal Hands · 13-09-2022 12:18am

Herself/himself

bad2thebone · 13-09-2022 12:22am

The ol'e doll

Pissy Missy · 13-09-2022 12:23am

The old ball and chain

My old lady

The old batalax

endacl · 13-09-2022 12:24am

The conscience?

dohouch · 13-09-2022 12:47am

Seriously though. If not PC than at least neutral.. We are out to alter the social mind of the world's most widely spoken language. Me 'ol doll just won't cut it in Boston and LA.

Will have to try harder 🧐

The 'ol Germans at least add the the word Leben's=life to the term , but in English adding ' life" to "partner" would have you reaching for the manual.

Turn on the 'ol brain's afterburners!

Quantum Erasure · 13-09-2022 1:11am

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13-09-2022 3:42am

Bit more complex here given there is three of us. Vast majority of the time I simply use their actual first names. But in most conversations where a word was required "partner" and "partners" has always sufficed. When I am a bit more tongue in cheek and philosophising I would call them my fellow travelers. Mainly based on my life motto about the meaning of live being that "The Journey is the Destination". Occasionally based on Dr. Seuss I would call them "Thing 1 and Thing 2" because of "The Cat in the Hat".

Would have once considered moving from "better half" to "better thirds" but with a mild Irish accent it sounded too often like I was calling them turds. So that was abandoned fairly quickly. If I went with "ball and chain" I would have to work out which one was the ball and which the chain.

They would both refer to me in conversation as "himself" and each other as "herself". Is that more an Irish thing than used in UK or US? Not sure.

Other than that - nothing useful occurs to me.

dohouch · 13-09-2022 5:43am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119610481#Comment_119610481

Whatsup here, feeling a bit dumb(founded)?🤔

Furze99 · 13-09-2022 9:00am

Me Mot or De Boss.. seriously partner is a fine term as it implies you're in it together for mutual benefit for some period of time.

Picking someone up on Tinder or in Coppers for a one nighter is not a partner.

EmmetSpiceland · 13-09-2022 9:08am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119610556#Comment_119610556

If I remember correctly, the guy with Fr Ted, in the picture, is the organiser of the song “contest” and refers to the show’s host, played by Jon Kenny, as his partner. Ted assumes he means business partners but it’s clarified he means life partner.

Awkwardness ensues.

13-09-2022 1:40pm

TBH "boyfriend" sounds a bit fukcin' stupid when you're 45. Grand if you're a teenager I suppose, at the end of the day it's only a word anyway, but I see nothing wrong with "partner" if referring to adults.

Larbre34 · 13-09-2022 1:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119610433#Comment_119610433

Lol, do you mean Battle Axe? As in 'face like a...'

I think side-piece works well.

Pissy Missy · 13-09-2022 2:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119612566#Comment_119612566

That's it 😂

Pherekydes · 13-09-2022 2:23pm

"Ah hi, this is my [dun dun dun] wife"

I know, it's completely unheard of. No one could ever have thought it up.

Yellow_Fern · 13-09-2022 2:27pm

Wife / husband is fine

[Deleted User] · 13-09-2022 2:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119610427#Comment_119610427

Reported!

dohouch · 13-09-2022 3:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119611055#Comment_119611055

@Evelyn Low Principal

Thanks for clearing that up in 🤗

dohouch · 13-09-2022 3:43pm

How about " Devileen" can be either sex. Has Irish sound, and the ending makes is diminutive or affectionate .

Would be happy for other philological contributions to continue developing the thesis. A friendlier word than "PARTNER" is of the utmost urgency, before the Russians come up with one☄️

Strumms · 13-09-2022 3:54pm

The quare wan, or the quare fella…

On a serious note there is really nothing wrong with boyfriend or girlfriend. Partner is a bit formal sounding I always thought.

dohouch · 13-09-2022 4:25pm

@Strumms Partner is a bit formal sounding I always thought."

I think "Partner " lacks emotion and reflects a more capitalist approach to the most important human relationship. If the intimate relationship does not meet its primary

" Raison d'être" then then start a limited company or, dare I say it " a partnership"

😭

Jim_Hodge · 13-09-2022 4:29pm

She who must be obeyed.

Gremlinertia · 13-09-2022 4:37pm

Mo stòr is an Irish one I like a lot. Doubt it would take much to bring it to more daily usage.

SEPT 23 1989 · 13-09-2022 7:28pm

Her indoors

dohouch · 13-09-2022 8:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119614272#Comment_119614272

So the women & gays say "his indoors". Something new 🤥

Capt'n Midnight · 14-09-2022 6:28pm

SWMBO

dohouch · 14-09-2022 7:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119618874#Comment_119618874

Need the pronunciation, or are we being mysterious? "Noun. SWMBO (plural SWMBOs) (humorous) Initialism of she who must be obeyed: one's wife or female partner.. In

Do you want to c the yellow card?

Only gender neutral pronouns on Boards. .ie!

Must be them, those, d'other, or dudder . I do suffer a poverty of gender neutral pronouns in my vocabulary 🍆

Count Dracula · 14-09-2022 7:41pm

My Fang Cushion

Better word for the stable hitch -No more "My Partner"

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