Wodehousian.

Wodehousian forms of address

If you’re lacking ideas how to call your family and friends, you may try these:

“old thing”,

“old egg”,

“old fruit”,

“my little chickadee”,

“you old ass”,

“my fluttering old aspen”,

“my dear old mysterious hinter”,

“old fever patient”,

“old ancestor”,

“old thicker than water”,

“old flesh and blood”,

“(my dear) old relative”,

“my dear old faulty reasoner”,

“you poor chump”,

“my poor lamb”,

“my misguided old object”,

“you ghastly goggle-eyed piece of gorgonzola”,

“face”,

“ugly”,

“aged relative”,

“you young blot”,

“my beamish boy”,

“old blood relation”,

“you abysmal chump”,

“Lord Spodecup” (instead of “Lord Sidcup”),

“my (beautiful) bounding Bertie”,

“you young hellhound”,

“you revolting object”,

“you young muttonhead”,

“my dear old police sergeant”,

“poor ditherer”,

“Attila”,

“Watson”.

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