Nicknames for neighbours

We live in a small cul de sac with only 10 houses. At one point some years ago 3 houses were occupied by men called Ron, John and Don. My husband referred to them as Da Doo Ron Ron, Da Doo John John and Da Doo Don Don! Ron has since moved but the names still stick for the other 2.

We were both brought up to consider nicknames rather rude if applied to adults, so we refer to the neighbour's by name.

If the DH is still in doubt, I identify neighbours as L. C's owner, C being L's cat, or P. J's (J is P's dog) owner, as we both tend to be better at recognising the neigbours' cats and dogs than the neigbours themselves.

Miss World because she always had curlers in.
Paddy because he was Irish
The Gnomes - because the whole family looked a but like garden gnomes.

I am sure they had names for me as well!

Over the years we've had a Beavis and Butthead (they were awful) and a couple we called The Elvises (because they played Elvis a lot rather loudly.) We've had a Fat Jean (who really was very fat, but a nice lady.) We currently have a Wurzel (don't ask!) and a "him next door" because we don't like him and we don't know his name.

Superman and Lois Lane
Bob ( bag of bones )
Strider
The Crumblies
The P******⁵ds

Growing up, we had a neighbour always peeking through the nets and to this day she is called Fa na ka pan. Another lady was a gossip and called Fanny Alice...no idea why.

We are Dog man and Dog woman as we have 4 Labradors. We don’t have nicknames for our neighbours except for Stevie Wonder next door. Gave him this name as he is always working on his house so we all wonder what he’s going to improve next.

Ah I love this post! We have 'The Gaybours' (the gay guys next door), Spice & Dice (he likes to smoke weed and she's just a bit well ... dicey!), The GodBores (the religious family over the road), The Reverend & Mrs Green (ex Rev & wifey).... We used to have Mr Naked Man over the road ... tbh I was sad when he moved out - he had absolutely no problem flaunting his (rather impressive) naked bod at every given opportunity! Shucks!

Mr Grumpy lives near my elderly parents, he complains and sends nasty looks over when I briefly park outside their house, rather than in the allocated parking area, to unload their weekly shopping.....hope he never gets old and needs a bit of help!

I was once ringing my Mum's doorbell and her youngish flat neighbours came out. To my horror they referred to my Mum as 'Mad Laura'. She was a quiet woman , a bit forgetfull at
that stage but I couldn't imagine how she'd earned that
horrible nickname.

I once worked with someone who called her neighbours "The J Edgars" because they always had the vacuum cleaner out.

(they came out of their flat)

Terry the Tit and his wife Very Very Thick her registration is VVT! Fortunately they have recently moved thankfully as we were nearly coming to blows.

A family that lived down the road from us we nicknamed the Klammers as they had three skiing holidays per year, another neighbour at the bottom of the cul de sac we nicknamed Mrs Alan Whicker as she was never at home, always driving off somewhere with her toddlers in the car seats. My husband calls one neighbour The Spanish Fly as she’s from mainland Spain, one man is nicknamed Mike it is, because he’s welsh and that’s how he introduces himself. A problematic young lad was nicknamed Torchy by my husband as he had committed arson a few times. An elderly lady was nicknamed Mink and Sable after her two poodles. One elderly chap is Leeds John, as he comes from Leeds. My husband nicknamed one young girl Olga Korbet as she used to attend gymnastics classes& be outside in her leotard.

We live opposite The Clampitts (for those of you who remember the Beverley Hillbillies). They're the only ones my husband given a name to, as they don't abide by any Covid rules, keep their bins at the front, and have a drive full of vans and a caravan. Makes us sound a bit snobby. The rest of the neighbours all socially distance and are very aware of rules etc.

We’ve got an Uncle Fester,Mr Gangles,Mr.Happy,Cyprus John, Mr Chesterfield,Policeman.
Had them 20 year or so.

One rough couple at the end of the road we call The Numpties with the goings on there. Next door Mrs. Vampire as never goes out and the man at the end of the close Mr Odd Ball. Oh dear all sounds a bit bad really but not meant in malice. True of each household.

We have names for some people who walk by our house, one is the Scottish widow as she wears a long black coat, like the insurance advert, another is Burglar Bert as he always carries a swag bag and we imagine him going on a 'job.' We used to have a man nearby who was always working on his house, so he was DIY man, another who worked as a telephone engineer, so he is alway telephone man! I do wonder what name people call us!

We have a Mr Hat. Always wears a hat, no idea what his real name is

'Yetti'or 'Big Foot' was the guy living in Flat above. No idea of spatial awareness, clambering across the floor like 'Big Foot'. Another neighbour named 'SKY News', (always the first with breaking gossipy news)!

Funniest thread I've read for a while!

I thought it was just us who did this for fun. We have the Gallaghers, the Chief, Shorty (he always wears shorts no matter the weather). Not to mention the Parkers and Julie from down the road, don't know her surname. A lively bunch of neighbours I wonder what we get called?

I've got "next door upstairs" " 'er underneath" and "John Wayne", so named because he pointed a gun at the young window cleaner!
It turned out to be a replica but not until the armed response team had been deployed! That was quite exciting ?

I don't really have neighbours, not close ones anyway! My husband and I moved to Scotland in February this year. There is a garage next door (no trouble, does MOT's, but has a jib elsewhere, so the garage is not often open. Above us on this side of the street, only open fields - though there are some more houses a good bit further up (and a farm). We do have houses opposite, and have so far only met a "Jim" and a "Joe" (both elderly men, presumably widowers). We have lovely views from the back of the house, looking out to sea (again, only a road, some distant houses, the remains of a broch, a distant Cemetery and a Castle)!

"job" not jib!