A Light Hearted Look at Nicknames

We don't do nicknames so much.

When I was young I remember a Posher, Moaner (though it may have been her name), Nobby, Wetleg, Chalky & Dangleweed.

As a kid I was always called Tilly as I was always on my toes. Short for Tilly Losch who was a dancer
I think a lot of nick names are cruel one could say bullying

I'm bus nanny to one of my grandsons as I was the only person who took him on a bus. I have a large black hairy cat known as Lump, and the tv remote has always been the doofy.

I was called Splotch at school but can’t remember why.

We have neighbours,

Mrs Limp
Mrs Wart
Mr & Mrs Shouty
The Greens
Mad Woman
Catalogue Couple

One DD calls our dog, who is called Poppy, “Pon”

I was called “Racoon” and “Wackers” at school (reference to unusual surname)

Both DD have called me by my first name since their teens!

We call the remote controls for anything “the buttons”

I was Titch.......I was the youngest and the smallest.

We had a chap called Dustin who came into our local and who worked as a refuse collector. He was always referred to as Dustbin Hoffman.
DH and I always gave nicknames to look-a- like people we came across on holidays. There was a President Kennedy, a Tony Blair and a Miss World.
DH's rugby club was full of nicknames - better not mention them as many are still alive and easily recognisable!

My younger brother had two nicknames. One was egghead and the other was frog. He did have an egg shaped head when younger then changed to a frog like shape. Lol
My mother in laws last name was related to cold weather and she was often called Frost or Winter by mistake

Reading this I do so hope nicknames have gone out of fashion!

My generation suffered from school-friends who used unkind nicknames, but the worst offenders were parents, especially fathers, ably seconded by uncles.

Mothers used "pet names" often a play on a child's given name, and some of them kept on using a hated name far too long, because they thought it was sweet,

We still chuckle over the nickname our son gave to a chap who would pass our front garden. The chap had a distinctive knee raising walk and would be wringing his hands as he went along his way. He was known as ride a bike rubiks in one word ‘rideabikerubiks’ 😂

I used to have two friends called Norma, and if referring to them, one was Norma round the corner, and the other one Norma round the bend, she was a bit! Our tv remote is ZOOMIE. I had a friend who called her car Delilah because the registration was YYY.

My dad used to call me bluetit until I became very embarrassed when puberty hit!
We don’t have nicknames really, apart from the next door neighbour who is “that ignorant git”.

My great grannie was a Fanny as was my gt aunt, her daughter. I don't know when it began to have another meaning. It was often short for Frances but not in my case.

At school some of the girls had names you could make another name from the initials and surnames.
Thus we had Chicks (C Hicks)
Patty (Patterson) Smartie (S Martin) and so on. These names stuck.

Yes, i knew a Tony Carpet

When I was a lot younger I and my friends used to go to a pub where a lot of men had nicknames relating to their jobs
So for example you would have John the dust he was a dustman or Brian the book he worked in a shop selling books
Saved asking people what they did for a living

Talking of fannies, I am fed up that the affectionate term for a cat 'pussy' has now been outlawed. I blame Pussy Galore and Mrs Slocombe.

watermeadow

My father used to call me Fanny! That was long before it got its present meaning.

A friend of my first wife was actually named Fanny.; she was probably born 1950s maybe?

Unfortunately in modern parlance she was the butt of horrendous jokes

My parents were cockneys and very blunt and cutting with their nicknames for some of the people on our street; Brasso Lil, Mini fat legs, The Kraut, Kipper feet, Gypsy Rose, Tinkerbell. Many more but not particularly PC.

When I worked for a firm of Accountants, one, in particular in a senior role, really couldn't write the most basic of letters, he was known throughout the firm as "the illiterate Chartered Accountant"

One of my son's school mates was known as "Bomber" I asked son how he acquired such a name. "Everyone knows when he's dropped one from the fall out" that was in junior school as well that's boys for you, the lavatorial to the last

One of my rxes worked ss labourer, and the ha nicknames galore.
"So, I said look, you backfill that 'ole, Smelly"
Why's he called Smelly?
"Well, cos he smells".

Hi yogitree ,
Messaged you .

Kids can be very cruel .
We have lots of nicknames in our family some shared with the Mitfords !
I laughed when I read it.

No one is called by their Christian names unless we about talking about them to other people as it's confusing.

Years ago a lady used to join us at our cafe group and none of us could remember her name and as the weeks rolled on we were too embarrassed to ask her .
One day someone asked if we'd seen Lipstick .
None of had said it but we'd noticed that she always had most of her front teeth coated in lipstick .
It wasn't meant unkindly.

My DH's nickname was 'Wolfman' as he had a full beard and moustache which seemed to cover most of his face.

Friends used to joke about checking the phases of the moon if we were meeting up after dark.

At primary school, I was bullied a lot (lots of reasons) and as I was one of the few with a pet dog, I was called after a brand of dog food of the era. Taunted, rather than called and in a cruel way. Kids can be so evil!

We don't have many nicknames around here except for The Druggies.

we also have

wide boy
speedy gonzales
the labradors
the walking couple

oh and 'the tutor'