A Light Hearted Look at Nicknames

Princess Annes first husband was called fog by Charles because he was thick and wet 😀

We also had 'spooky' who lived down our road, as she was a spiritualist/medium.

Nick names can sound funny but not always so if you are on the receiving end and some are very disrespectful. Thank goodness I have never been in such a situation.

MissAdventure

The man at the end of our road was known as Walter, due to his likeness to Walter on the programme about Nelly Pledge and the pickling factory.
"Have you been, Walter?".

My dad went to give the guy a hand with his garden, and called him Walter all through the afternoon.

He was really cross, as he genuinely thought it was the mans name.

That's funny. My MIL was known by her work colleagues as Nelly Pledge because she used to get her words mixed up and say some daft things.

My name is Monica and my family call me Mocca which I love. My friends call me Mon which I’m less fond of!

My father called Auntie The Widow Forbye, as when she was pleading poverty ( which she did often, despite being very well off) she would say, “ I mean, I’m a pensioner, and a widow forbye”.
( Forbye is Scots for also)
A colleague of my mother was called The Count, as in Count from The Mount, the area in which he lived.
The Mount is known locally as The Munt.

The man at the end of our road was known as Walter, due to his likeness to Walter on the programme about Nelly Pledge and the pickling factory.
"Have you been, Walter?".

My dad went to give the guy a hand with his garden, and called him Walter all through the afternoon.

He was really cross, as he genuinely thought it was the mans name.

My father had a general nickname for older women of a certain type and appearance - ‘Old flannel-drawers’. 😂

My father was a holy terror in naming family. My cousin Hilary was Hilly Dilly if you get the drift.

His brother named their daughter Sarah Kathleen, thinking that they did not mind Sally, Kat, etc. Poor little one was SKate.

My daughters, adults with their own families,call me Snaine?? They are big lav and little lav, my dog Max was Mr Moo, my grandaughter Isla is mini lav or Binks,Binkle or La.....lol

Also Jog Tom - Miss Thomas who taught geography.

We had nicknames for teachers at school.

There was Chinwag - she had a very prominent chin.

. Spitty Smith had ill-fitting false teeth.

Fanny Jemima had the initials F,J. (I think she was actually called Freda.)

Ooh, I've just remembered my dad's friend, who gave everyone nicknames, some quite scathing.

It's odd that he and my dad were friends, really.

I was "Mouth on a stick", my sister was "Egg on legs"
My nan was "Double egg on legs" and my dad was "Every home should have one"

I can't remember what he called my num, but I've an idea they fell out over his naming of everyone.

Many years ago, when I was in my 20s, someone I worked with used to call me 'Fleagle', as in Fleagle the beagle from the Banana Splits tv show, saying I looked like him.

I didn't, but was amused all the same.

I've been killing myself laughing at all of your replies here!

I'm on here as TheWeirdoAgain when I worked as a carer in a home for adults with various severe mental and/or physical disabilities.

One of my lovely patients, George, was in his 80s but had the brain of a child of about 7; he always greeted me with ''Hello, weirdo!'' and things like Thanks for dinner, weirdo!'' etc. We always made each other laugh, and I'd call him ''My little pudding''! We absolutely loved each other, and I was devastated when he died.

I used to have a little cat called Duncan, but I called him Hunky Duncky and Dunc the Hunk, and he answered to all 3 names! Various pets I've had over the years with different nicknames.

I very secretly have nicknames for various people I know, including shop staff.
1-Female -Red Nose, because the tip of her nose is always Rudolph-looking!
2-Female - PoFace, as while all the other staff are lovely, she has the personality of a dry puddle!
3-Female - SnakeBum, as all her work colleagues and most customers hate her for being so toxic and she's actually driven 2 of them to quit!
4- Male - Purple RumpleStiltskin, as he looks just like Rumple and often has a purple beard!
5- Male - The TeddyBear, a local farmer, quite old, lovely man, looks just like a 6ft teddy!
6-Male - Mr Glitzy, as he's an English Hollywood actor who lives around here with his wife and gorgeous little doggy.

When we were children we had an old woman at church who was always hitching up her underwear. We called her Baggy pants.

Somebody l.know from way back had and a girlfriend Geraldine who.ended up stalking him.

He found out from the Police that she had a history of doing this to her former boyfriends.

She used to ring him up and ask him to play a certain record for her down the phone everynighht. Can't remember what is was. A really soppy love song.

Reminded some of his friends including me or the maniac,deranged women in that film with Clint Eastwood "Play Misty For Me"

From then she was the referred to as such

Never had nicknames for people but the remote always been Rodney and my car the Chariot.

A fella at a place I worked at in the 1980s looked like a big bear. He was known as Yogi.
Nice bloke.

Beverley Morris is a superb name for a cat.

We have a squirrel called 'Beryl' in our garden and my youngest GC calls a black and white cat who visits us 'Beverley Morris'.

watermeadow My Dad also called me Fanny and on occasions Fanny Fanackapan!

We have names for the neighbours (Mrs Washing, Mr Mumble etc), and we also have names for the birds who frequent our garden. So we have Russell and Sheryl (crows), Mr and Mrs Pie (magpies), Woodie (woodpecker), Sir Flap and Mrs Coo (pigeons) and Guzzle Gut (heron who eats the fish in the pond).

Oh, and because of him chain-smoking really foul smelling weed, the bloke next door is Stinking Billy, or Stenchman. That's the printable names!

My Dad used to call me Fat Annie (OK, so I was a chubby child) shortened to Fanny. One of my sisters was referred to as Maggot (due to my mispronunciation of her name) and she is still referred to as that, or Mags for short.
Onions were referred to as yum-yums, again because of mispronunciation, many items were called whatsits or dooh-dahs. As a lacemaker I use a tool to pull out and push in pins, and I call this a push me-pullu (of course!)
And my son used to refer to chocolate as gee (as in choccy/choggee) and indeed that's the word we still use.
English after all is an evolving language....