Alternative words for 'boyfriend/girlfriend'.

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06 Dec 2011, 3:31 pm

Rocky wrote:

Tequila wrote:

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POSSLQ (Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters)

What about POSSLIQ (Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Intimate Quarters)

Yours is better. Mine does not differentiate between lovers and people sharing the rent who happen to be of the opposite sex. Yours also can be pronounced in a way to include "lick." :lol:

(Was that intentional? You didn't include an emoticon.) BTW, I didn't make mine up. I don't know where it originated, though.

Census forms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSSLQ

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06 Dec 2011, 3:35 pm

I usually referred to a human I was dating by their name. If, for some odd reason, clarification of dating status had to be voiced, it was their name followed by "who I am dating." I didn't walk around bragging about it though, so usually the human just got referred to by name.

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06 Dec 2011, 6:07 pm

Rocky wrote:

Yours also can be pronounced in a way to include "lick." :lol:

(Was that intentional? You didn't include an emoticon.

Yes, it was.

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06 Dec 2011, 6:12 pm

I hear people my kids friend's age group age 15 - 25 say either "ole man" or "ole lady" a lot. A really popular thing they say right now to refer to their bf or gf is "ole dude" or "ole girl", but they use that as a name, as in "Ole girl was all upset at me yesterday" or "Look what ole dude got me for my birthday". They don't use "my" in it like ole man or ole lady.

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06 Dec 2011, 6:22 pm

After all those suggestions, I 'd say stick to boyfriend.

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06 Dec 2011, 11:03 pm

Мой возлюбленный
Moĭ vozlyublennyĭ

^"My beloved" in Russian

Or

Моя любовь
Moya lyubovʹ

^"My love" in Russian.

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06 Dec 2011, 11:37 pm

my sexual colleague

my romantic peer

my coworker in the love department

my wrestling partner

my teammate

the biggest shareholder in my company

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07 Dec 2011, 3:38 am

mv wrote:

I have one friend who refers to her husband as her "boy" (they're in their 40s). I have another friend who refers to her fiancé as "my mans" (even though there's only one).

People are weird.

I like to say my boy tooo...its less syllables that boyfriend.

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07 Dec 2011, 4:21 pm

mv wrote:

Rocky wrote:

Tequila wrote:

Rocky wrote:

POSSLQ (Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters)

What about POSSLIQ (Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Intimate Quarters)

Yours is better. Mine does not differentiate between lovers and people sharing the rent who happen to be of the opposite sex. Yours also can be pronounced in a way to include "lick." :lol: