I just finished a book where he kept calling her his little hedgehog.  Personally I don't think I would find that very flattering:-) 

Anyone else encounter some strange ones?

Wow, that's a strange one.  I don't think I'd like it either.  Did she have a weird haircut or something?  I haven't come across any unusual ones yet, but I just finished a book where the hero called the heroine Fancy Face, and I kept picturing Bo & Hope from Days of our Lives. 

I read one not too long ago, can't remember the name right off the top of my head but I know he kept calling her "puss". Kinda strange to me lol!

I think I read that "fancy face" one and I didn't like it either.  I read a couple bodice ripper historicals where the heroine was called "brat" by the much older hero.

I'm not crazy about the term "chit". I know this is an old-fashioned Brittish term but it's too close to "shit" to me. 

Here's one I find urky: "Peaches" - a boob reference (bleh).  Maybe this guy would like being called  Walnuts?

Hedgehog?  Oh what book was that?  I think I read that a long time ago. LOL

I read one recently where he called her "doll" all the time and it just sounded creepy more than anything romantic.

Sherri

it depends on the nickname and why it's given..one of the old bodice rippers I read he called  her'dovetail' and I hated that..something like how close they were gonna be together..gag...otherwise the story was pretty good!

Having NOT read a/the book where the heroine is called hedgehog . . . . my first assumption would be that the heroine is short and fat . . . . errrrrrrrr, plump.  :-)

I remmber a woman being called a hedgehog or something similar..think because she was prickly...

Oh, I never thought that it might be because she was prickly...she was quite headstrong.  It was Cherry Adair's On Thin Ice.

Doesn't Johanna Lindsey use puss a lot?  I seem to remember the Malorys using it, along with brat.

Walnuts, LOL, I can't recall coming across any male nicknames.  Hmm, now I'm going to pay attention and look.

we could make up our own male nicknames and send them to authors to use.  We have walnuts.  how about others, like:  pebbles (smaller than walnuts); all those guys who growl could be tiger.  others?  I'm about making my own self sick.

You guys have me rolling here.  My hubby... er, I mean Walnuts... keeps raising his eyebrows at me.

Also not fond of "Peaches."

I can't track down the book, but supposedly Elizabeth Lowell had a heroine nicknamed "Bitch Kitty." [boggle]

I think for my husband I will choose something a little more respectable than Walnuts... maybe "Whiskers."

I read one where the hero kept calling the heroine his "little falcon."  A little odd, I thought.  In another, he called her "hummingbird." 

Okay, she's pecking?  And humming???  Sounds like a man wrote it:P

I just finished one where the heroine's name is Cat, but the hero calls her "kitten" instead.  In context, it was actually very sweet.

Katrina

i don't like  'PUSS"...i think of a  whore...

i remeber Diana Palmer character Cash called his lady love 'GEORGIA FLY" and in context it was so perfect!

the falcon and hummingbirds were different books, actually.

I think I read the falcon one.  Did the hero keep falcons and take to "taming" his wife the same way he would tame his falcons?  Complete with jingling jesses? 

Well in light of my current marital circumstances, my DH's nickname would be The Jerk. 

No.  It was Untamed by Elizabeth Lowell.  I think the one you're thinking of was Beyond the Highland Mist.

Actually, he does the jesses in _Untamed_ too. She keeps wearing them throughout the series.