"Missus" and "Wifey"

Leicester_Hunk · 25/03/13 - 01:28

Does anyone (guys) use these terms for partners or girlfriends you are not actually married to? I just don't get it

Somebody has just tweeted he is going to the cinema with the "wifey" and they aren't even living together never mind married.

But the "missus" is the one that gets my goat. I hate it being used for someone who is your wife, but why use it for someone that isn't??

Why???

sweh · 25/03/13 - 01:38

I don't know why, and Idgaf.

People do and say all kinds of thizzangs. I space out whenever people are talking about their partner, girlfriend, hubby, wifey, baby-momma, child-father etc. I simply don't care.

lyndalahughes · 25/03/13 - 01:43

Guys who are too poor to get them an engagement ring.

Elanor · 25/03/13 - 01:43

I used to work with a guy who referred to his wife as 'our woman'. He also liked to leave emails from her open on his screen, so that we could see that she called him 'red hot lover man'. He was ace.

rbdcay · 25/03/13 - 01:46

sweh wrote: »

I don't know why, and Idgaf.

People do and say all kinds of thizzangs. I space out whenever people are talking about their partner, girlfriend, hubby, wifey, baby-momma, child-father etc. I simply don't care.

Your contribution is slightly off kilter are you in that sort of mood?

As to the OP, I o find it a bit illy too but he can only be a thing that may have been passed down through generations I expect and copied without knowing why.

sweh · 25/03/13 - 01:48

rbdcay wrote: »

Your contribution is slightly off kilter are you in that sort of mood?

No it isn't lol.

I'm not in any sort of mood! :mad:

Rhumbatugger · 25/03/13 - 01:52

There's a problem with talking about partners when there is no actual 'marriage'.

I quite often hear, in this neck of the woods, Missus, used ordinarily to identify a long term partner.

It's especially difficult when you're older 'boyfriend' and 'girl friend' sound ridiculous when you're over forty.

'Lover' is a bit pretentious and also just emphasizes that you have sex.

'Partner' is really formal and clinical.

~What should people say?

I don't know.

NatoPMT · 25/03/13 - 01:52

I perceive 'wifey' to be a try hard expression used by men who want everyone to know they are in a relationship...in spite of this, it still sounds patronising

I just think of people like Phil Mitchell when i hear 'missus', it's a bit cliched and unimaginative

BellaRosa · 25/03/13 - 01:55

I find it confusing when a woman calls another woman 'wifey' and neither are gay

Rhumbatugger · 25/03/13 - 01:55

NatoPMT wrote: »

I perceive 'wifey' to be a try hard expression used by men who want everyone to know they are in a relationship...in spite of this, it still sounds patronising

I just think of people like Phil Mitchell when i hear 'missus', it's a bit cliched and unimaginative

What should they say though?

'She who must be obeyed'?

'Her indoors'?

'The love of my life'?

It's all a bit weird.

Bluray · 25/03/13 - 01:56

I hate hearing "our lass".

Jason · 25/03/13 - 01:56

sweh wrote: »

I don't know why, and Idgaf.

People do and say all kinds of thizzangs. I space out whenever people are talking about their partner, girlfriend, hubby, wifey, baby-momma, child-father etc. I simply don't care.

You cared enough to tell us you don't care though

Anyway, I often refer to the fairer sex as "mrs" - but really only as a term of endearment. I do also think "partner" is far too formal. I don't mind "other half" though I suppose.

sweh · 25/03/13 - 01:57

JasonWatkins wrote: »

You cared enough to tell us you don't care though

Yeah, I did. It is one of things. If someone's moaning, ya gotta moan too. Circle of life n dat, init bruv?

LaceyLouelle3 · 25/03/13 - 02:00

'Missus' seems ok to me, 'Wifey' just isn't.

Jason · 25/03/13 - 02:07

sweh wrote: »

Yeah, I did. It is one of things. If someone's moaning, ya gotta moan too. Circle of life n dat, init bruv?

Fo' Shizzle my Nizzle just seems the appropriate response ..

Miss XYZ · 25/03/13 - 02:08

My OH never calls me 'Missus' or 'Wifey'. I like Missus and wouldn't mind him calling me that but it's not a word he'd use. He's in his 40s and I'm in my 30s so we're a bit old to call each other boyfriend and girlfriend. He calls me his partner and I say the same, even though it makes me cringe. Wifey is terrible though, shame on any man who uses that word.

PencilBreath · 25/03/13 - 02:14

thought wifey was an Aberdeen expression. never heard English people using it before.

blueblade · 25/03/13 - 02:15

Leicester_Hunk wrote: »

Does anyone (guys) use these terms for partners or girlfriends you are not actually married to? I just don't get it

Somebody has just tweeted he is going to the cinema with the "wifey" and they aren't even living together never mind married.

But the "missus" is the one that gets my goat. I hate it being used for someone who is your wife, but why use it for someone that isn't??

Why???

Agreed, but one thing I keep seeing on facebook from female friends is references to "The Mister" for their boyfriends/partners.

Takae · 25/03/13 - 02:15

I hear 'missus' more than 'wifey'. I'm fine with the former and not so much with the latter. The latter is just too weird.

My old boss referred his live-in partner, who was also the mother of his three children, as "my wife". I never knew her name in all three years I worked for him. I still don't know, actually.

Edit: I can't believe I forgot this.

I had a friend who referred his live-in partner as "wifelet". You have no idea how much I hated hearing that from him.

andersonsonson · 25/03/13 - 02:20

I wouldn't call a woman that. Although I don't really mind the term"hubby". Also in Scotland (don't know about other places), men call women "birds".

Flat Matt · 25/03/13 - 02:21

I had a mate who called his longterm girlfriend "the old dribble".

I didn't get around to asking him how he arrived at that name.

[Deleted User] · 25/03/13 - 02:39

Flat Matt wrote: »

I had a mate who called his longterm girlfriend "the old dribble".

I didn't get around to asking him how he arrived at that name.

:eek:

gemma-the-husky · 25/03/13 - 02:41

you do need a word to describe the peculiar form of "ownership" of a relationship, though, do you not? especially a marriage.

My wife, My husband, My other half, etc etc.

I think missus is just the writen form of Mrs,

[Deleted User] · 25/03/13 - 02:48

Bluray wrote: »

I hate hearing "our lass".

same.

Ber · 25/03/13 - 02:51

JasonWatkins wrote: »

You cared enough to tell us you don't care though

Anyway, I often refer to the fairer sex as "mrs" - but really only as a term of endearment. I do also think "partner" is far too formal. I don't mind "other half" though I suppose.

You were the first person I thought of when I saw the word missus

Then again we are actually married so it doesn't count

Bwahahaha

allaboard · 25/03/13 - 02:56

We use Wifey and Hubby, but in private. We have them in our phones too, as my brother and husband have the same name, and I have the same name as a collegue of his.

Hey there!

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