Different ways of 'Love'

'Love', 'Darling', 'Dear'


These are few of the common ways to call your love indirectly without saying the name. However, are you familiar with some of the rare nicknames that some countries tend to use? Here is the list of some of those strange ways to call your love.


1. Peru

"Gordo/Gorda"


In Peru, people have a habit of calling their love 'fat'. There is no direct reason for this, but the most persuasive reason is that they have a comfortable feeling and an affection towards somebody that is slightly fat. Or perhaps it means that they are friendly enough to call each other 'fat'.

2. France

"Petit chou"


In France, couples who have almost agreed to an engagement usually call each other 'petit chou', which means 'small cabbage'. 'Cabbage', they say, is equal to 'heart', 'care' or 'love' in French. The reason for this is because the phrase means something small and round.
Moreover, they say that 'cabbage' has a similar shape to that of a baby's head. French also has a traditional saying that men are born from cabbages and women are born from roses.


"Here's some cake for you, little cabbage."


Strange phrase, right? But there are more...


"Ma puce"

Guess what this word means. Here are some hints:

1) it is similar to 'sweetness'

2) it is small

3) it is an organism

4) it is not even closely related to love


Have you guessed anything?...Ma puce actually means 'flea'!

Some say that in the past, taking fleas of of somebody else's body would get them in a closer relationship. Looks like the French had a bad habit of not cleaning themselves, right?..

3 Japan

"Tamago kato no kao"


The Japanese have a preference for a face which has an oval shape. Then, as you might have guessed, they call their love 'egg with eyes'. Japanes paintings from different historical periods also normally depict women with a perfectly oval shape which resembles an egg.



It would definitely sound funny and weird to say something like, "Egg with eyes, the dinner was excellent."

However, cultural differences must be respected. There must also be strange ways to call 'love' in Korean, which is only familiar to Koreans. These phrases exist only to deepen the couples' relationships, and nothing negative.