Pet names

Coastpath Love those.

We call my brother and his family the Clampets from the Beverly Hillbillies, for the way they live and the chaos in their house.

I also have a pet name for my DGS, but it's private.

I have pet names for a couple of friends. One of whom guessed hers and was hugely insulted. Ooops

Dh and i have nicknames for neighbours and people we see on a regular basis around car boots.
We laugh when we see them.

There was a really good thread about neighbours nicknames a while back

As children we gave people rather horrid nicknames. One of my brothers still gets mad if anybody mentions his

We have names for neighbours especially ones we don’t like. My little grandchildren call me naughty nanny because I don’t always let them have their own way. I love it they take notice to me but run rings around their parents.

Not the family, but we have got nicknames for some of the neighbours -
Father Ted (white hair) and his wife Rusty (her hair colour)
Mr Muscle (bodybuilder)
The Reverand (he's not a vicar, he revs his damned motorbike for ages)
The Mole (very nosey woman)
Braggy Bill (boasts about everything)
Mrs Korma (she keeps chickens)

One for me which I didn't like - when we had a small boat he called it Wenchy Woo
Eldest son - John the Pon
Younger son - Graham Bear. He never liked it.
Eldest daughter - Lamb. Private reason.
Younger daughter - The Gills are alive.
What did we call him? He wanted "The Boss" but Im afraid he was Outnumbered.

I've always had pet names for our boys and Mr. S. He has a pet name for me and DS has one for me too.

My ex husband used to call me ‘pet’ as we were in the era of Petula Clarke a lot of his friends thought it was my name and all called me ‘pet’ too ??

I don't really, but sometimes call Gdaughter Little Missy.

But it sounds like your wife has nicknames for others that they don't appreciate, and she hasn't stopped when they hinted that she does.

Perhaps you need to talk to her and remind her to use the GC's proper names. I would never call someone by a name that they don't like.

Neither would I CanadianGran I've always thought as pet names as a term of endearment, not to be used as an insult.