Nicknames for neighbours

We had a neighbour we called 'Neat Ian' as when we moved in his garden was perfect and his garage had a carpet on the floor! We still call him that even though we moved after 16 years but he was a lovely neighbour.

Following on from my previous comment about nasty neighbours parking over dropped kerbs, I had nicknames for the whole family but couldn’t possibly put them on here ?.

The shopping trolleys. They go out every single day, sometimes twice, and have done all through the pandemic to go shopping . Every time they come back with at least five big bags of shopping. Heaven knows where they store it all. There are only two of them, can't possibly get through that much food.

I remember a conversation with dh, years ago, about why I called someone "my brothers girlfriend" rather than using her name. Well it was because I know 3 people with that name and if I didn't use a descriptor, he had no idea who I meant. He denied it of course. So I called his bluff and stopped, so now when I mention "Jill" (not their real name) without adding anything extra, he asks me "which one"!!

I couldn't possibly go public in case they recognise themselves.

My Dad had nicknames for our neighbours that made me smile :- Red Hat, Hook Nose, Mary Ellen ( the always -complaining man next door) . Just the mention of these names brings back happy memories of childhood. We have a Mary Ellen too and. Gladys Emmanuel ( fuss pot officious little men ) and a Heidi Binslammer but lots of lovely neighbours too.

We have Mr. Crinkly dog - because his dog is. Floosey bird - she used to constantly strut her stuff. John boring - doesnt often speak. 'Them' - family across the road. Everyone is ok though and we have no issues.

When my Mum had Dementia there was Mrs Next Door, Mrs end house and Mrs Upstairs. I thought it was quite clever of her.

Ape - nuff said, luckily she's only here about 2 weeks a year and a complete pain.
Mrs TiggyWinkle - no idea
Darling Buds of May - farming family with hundreds of broken down cars, agricultural machinery, dogs etc etc on their tumbledown property.
The Stalker, seemed to hang around the doctor all the time.

We have the ‘the old fashioned couple’ they are young but don’t use electricity if they can do chores manually. Dress old for their years.

Wales is notorious for nicknames, too few surnames. Dave the Train, Bob the Fire, Glenys Boogy-boo, John the Farm. But Dickie Bungalow didn’t live in a bungalow, there was nothing upstairs.

Bob the Builder, as when we moved in our neighbour fell off a small roof and broke his arm. The gatekeepers, as everytime they go out in the car they close and lock the gates, even if its only for 5 minutes. Finally the stalker, because he always hide behind the wall if he sees us in our drive.

The old cow next door. (sorry but she is a real pain!)
The dog lady (she has lots of lovely dogs)
The doctor & his wife
The odd chap
The fireman
The bloke with the motorbike.
Mostly our neighbours are lovely (but not the woman next door!!)

In our first house, located on a baby-farm - we didn't fit in - we had Trendy Girl, who did hairdressing in her front room, and Square Face, because his was.

Friends who lived at the end of a mile-long private drive through woodland had The Neighbours From Hell for a while.

DW Ashcombe lives in a flat overlooking a lovely park much used by dog-lovers. One particular mature lady, who generally has two or three dogs on leads, has an exaggerated lordosis or similar, resulting in her being Mrs No-Shape. She is a thoroughly charming, well-spoken person on the occasions we have said hello.

Top Cat - fussy old lady whose initials were TC.

We have one neighbour we call "Elvis" as he is always singing when in his garden. Unfortunately, his wife is called the "fishwife" as she seems to spend most of her time moaning and shouting at him and the kids!!! We also have a neighbour who had quite a bad weight problem so he had his stomach stapled but has now put all the weight back on (and more!!) so he is called "fatman,thinman,fatman"!! I wonder what, if anything, our neightbours call us ...

We have
Lilo Lil an older lady who wears lots of leopard print and bright clothes. Always full makeup on. She is nice.
The Drug Dealers when they first moved in taxis were always pulling up. Stopped after a couple of weeks but name stuck.
The Lottery winners, 20 odd years ago they won half a million on lottery.
All nice people.

We have, Super Mario, Ferret Man, Scrag End, Bob the Knob and Bumfun Betty, to name a few x

Love these nicknames, have laughed at them all.
Sadly, as I know all my neighbours by name they don’t have nicknames, except for one little lady who doggedly goes for a walk around the block three times a day. She’s recently got herself a wheelie walker so she’s now Mrs Trolley.
Mind you, I’m thinking of getting one myself so I wonder if I’ll be given a nickname.

Husky man as he walks his husky past our house twice a day. Green coat man,also goes by two times a day with his dog and is never without his green coat.
Hairy nose man, looks like long grass growing down his nose!
Backpack lady, never seen without it and she isn’t going shopping as we live nowhere near a shop,it looks empty.

We gave one of our neighbours the nickname POD (meaning prophet of doom). Whenever we chatted with him he had nothing nice to say about anyone or anything. Glad he’s moved away.

I am now in a different location, but my previous neighbour was nicknamed Vladimir Putin. He looked like him and acted like him.He moved in and managed to dominate everyone. He was loathed.

Nick the Greek, as opposed to Nick the son in law, Three Z's, he is Polish with three Z's in his unpronounceable name, The Mad Cat Woman, named herself(!),

The guy round the corner we call Elsie because the business name on his van begins with the letters LC.

My children inexplicably named the man next door 'Barbara'. He is very nice but it is very hard not to call him that to his face!