A Light Hearted Look at Nicknames

Throughout school I was known as Fryingpan - derived from my surname. My aunt's husband always called me George and did so until he died when I was well into middle age. I never discovered why!
My cat, whose name is Luna, is more often called either Buggerlugs or Tinkerbell. One of her predecessors, a rather fat moggie called Annie, was generally known as Ipso Fatso Catso.
And as for the neighbours! None of the current ones have nicknames but at various times I've lived near

Old Peculier
Bee (from his car registration)
Four Dogs
Mrs Busy
Mr Hedges
The Belgians (English but mostly worked in Brussels)
Tabby Cats
The Eyelash

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Tizliz

At school I was called Nell Gwyn but I don't know why. Something to do with oranges.

Could it have been your boobs?

NO!! Unless the boys were very desperate 🤣

My children call me Moth after a failed attempt by my OH to pipe the word mother on a mother's day cake. He did not leave enough space! I receive letters addressed to Moth!

They also call me Moomin, after Moomin Mama.

At school I was known as Hairy Armpit ... it was a play on my name. Also as Mishap ... another play on my initials, as in Miss HAP.

One DD was called Scuttlebut because of her strange gait when running.

And I have a robot lawn mower called Dave.

There was a horrible boy in my class who was permanently angry and always shouting at Elaine, his girl friend. We used to call her 'For (expletive deleted) sake Elaine.'

I found out that my neighbours called me 'Catwoman' as I had five of the little darlings at one time. It could have been a lot worse.

Yes we nicknames for neighbours -
The forensic man - he wears a white suit from head to toe when painting the front of his house.
The Kissingers - the man looks just like Henry Kissinger
Mop and bucket - the hubby is over six foot and his wife is tiny.
Rabbit family - they own several pet rabbits.
Not sure what they call us, perhaps is best not to know.

My mother used to call my sister and myself Mary Jane and Fanny Adams, only when she was cross with us.

We also have names for characters in the village: bobble hat, sotty ( always in the pub), Hoppity Harry, ( walks like on springs) and McNabb ( Scotsman) . No idea what their real names are. Others are known by their dogs name!

When we were children we had:

Mrs Magoo (thick pebble glasses)
Mr Whiffy (smelly old man)
Onion man (he wore a stripy top and rode a bike)
Funny Woman (she used to hiss at children and shake her bag at them)
Cyclops (one eyed woman at the corner shop)
Chalky (retired headmaster)
Trigger (milkman's horse - grey mare called Dolly)

We've got -

Father Ted (thick, white hair) and his wife, Rusty (colour of her hair)
TingTong (Vietnamese) and her husband, Tats (lots of tattoos)
John Boy (He's got a big family, like The Waltons)
Big Tash (huge moustache)
The Reverend (he revs his motorbike for ages)
Mr Muscle (always going to the gym)

As an aside when in hospital after a miscarridge, we had a real character in the ward. When she woke from surgery she grapped her false teethwhich flew across the floor and out she tottered with surgery gown wide open. But tbe point of this story is that when Drs did their round she asked how he recog ised us ,-"face or fanny"

Poor Doctor

watermeadow

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

My mum used to call me Fanny Blot watermeadow !
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JaneJudge

never mind family members, my husband has nicknamed the whole street we ever have a neighbour nicknamed 'sperm donor'

So do we....there
Kevin Bacon
Battery Man
Swagger Man
to name a very few

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

My husband nicknamed our daughter Rebel and still calls her that now despite her never having been rebellious.

My eldest daughter had a friend called Bin. Transpired she was called Lydia. Her parents started to call her (weirdly) Bin Lid when she was a baby. She's 45 now and still goes by Bin.

Tizliz

At school I was called Nell Gwyn but I don't know why. Something to do with oranges.

Could it have been your boobs?

Whitewavemark2

My daughter now in her 50s - used to wear a nappy and waterproof pants which after numerous washes tended to get a bit stiff and crackly.

We named her “ tin drawers” and to this day she answers to “tin”

🤣🤣🤣

That jogged my memory, Dragonfly. My sons referred to one of my DD’s boyfriends as ‘Single Cell’. Dear reader, she did not marry him, thankfully!

At school I was called Nell Gwyn but I don't know why. Something to do with oranges.

My DH has a pen with a rubber tip which he uses to type on his iPad. This is always referred to as ‘the pokey thing!’ I once had a cat that would eat anything who was always called Dustbin.
Being very tall and skinny I was catcalled ‘Lanky’ at school which always upset me (goodness I wish I was that skinny now, I’d happily accept the catcalls!) My DD sadly suffered the same fate, she was called ‘Beanpole’. However, when in her teens she looked like a super model, the same boys tried to chat her up, they soon got short shrift!

'Bowfie' is an old Scots term, describing someone who is a bit fat/chubby - which (looking back at the old photos, I am forced to concede) I was as a baby. Hence, for (far too) many years, I was known within the family as Bowfie.

My DH gave most of my DD's boyfriends ridiculous nicknames. She always could tell which ones he liked as those he didn't like didn't get a name.
He didn't do the same with our son's girlfriends.

The school bullies called me Dimsey rhymes with my first name!!

We didn’t do nick names in our family. I’m loving tin knickers, though! 🤣

A friend was at uni with Gordon Brown. GB was known as Sugar, not just for his surname but also his fondness for the lasses.

My Dad used to call me Ajax after a cleaning stuff? At school I was called hedgehog a take on my family name.

My best friend and I had the same surname, so I was known as 'Wee xxxxxx' and she was known as 'Big xxxxxx.'