What's your nickname(s)? What was it as a kid?
Obviously many of you (Lefty, Yorkie, Bubbasmom, MOFM, etc) use a nickname here; do you have others?
If there's a story behind yours, feel free to share with the rest of the class.
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Doctor Duk
It's for my duck tattoo.
Because I am almost 6'1" I have been called Stretch and Legs. But my favorite is one I gave myself when I was little. It's Kiwi. Apparently when I was very little I couldn't pronounce Carolyn and that's what came out...
When I was little my sisters called me Foofy MeatMoaf. I think it was supposed to be Fluffy Meatloaf but I couldn't pronounce it... don't know where it came from.
The obvious knickname I've had all my life is Red, because of my red hair.
I currently use the name Zan, which is a short version of my full first name... Alexandra. Only my mother calls me that.
Oh yes and my husband calls me Booboo.
I occasionally go by Busty Sea Wench.
There's really not a story there.
Carolyn - I'm 6'1. It's pretty cool, right? I like being tall. But I'm envious of your friends who call you nice things like 'stretch' or 'legs.' One of my friends, who's actually like another big brother, calls me "Sassy." And it has everything to do with height and not attitude. It's short for Sasquatch. If I didn't love him so much, I could kill him. Luckily, it hasn't caught on. I trust you guys won't abuse my trust in you. =]
No real life nicknames, as the first name Dawn doesn't lend itself to much, except for taking grease out of your way... but it did lend itself to the creation of my online name, which had the 'mama' portion added to it 9 years ago! :)
I'm a big fan of Batman, but I'm a chick... hence, Batgirl. I get called Sugartits a lot also.
When I was a wee infant, my father called me Scooter, because I was apparently quite adept at the whole crawling thing (I was a prodigy...what can I say?).
My grandfather called me Skeezix, which I found amusing because I had no idea what it meant. It wasn't until about 20 years after his death that I found out he was drunk most of the time, so who knows what he meant.
My 70-something aunt still thinks I'm 6 (she think's everyone is 6), and calls me Yaya Mimi, which was my sister's first attempt to say Elliott Mason. I still get called variations on this by the whole family - Yaya, Eeyop, Yayet...
I got called "Wilson" a lot because I'd never seen Castaway when we won a pumkin carving contest with a replica of the volleyball.
That sort of died away...
The boy calls me Poops, Bitch, Pumpkin Tits, etc. They're affectionate names...
"Foreskin" or "Force It Down The Toilet" (Fawcett). Hilarious.
I get called "Walrus Cooch". Or "Tater". Don't know why.
Stink
started in awkward teenage years - has stuck for 15 years now
My Grandmother always called me Sweet Pea. When I was a little baby, my nightgown drug on the floor behind me when I crawled around, and I looked like the character from the Popeye cartoons.
The minister of my church and many of my teachers at school called me Freckles because of my freckles, of course.
My Dad had several names for me. He called me Babe, Kiddo, and also Curly Top because of my naturally curly hair.
Eli is short for Elizabeth. My friends are just insanely lazy. And I went to Ole Miss w/ Eli Manning. They think it's clever. Meh.
Zibba is my childhood nickname that my family still calls me. My brother couldn't say Elizabeth and I guess Zibba just stuck.
Mother Ninja: because I have produced offspring and both I and my whelps are good at sneaking up on people.
K-Fed: because once I had a big, ugly, knotty bruise on my knee that hung around way longer than anyone wanted it to.
The others aren't that interesting.
My family has called me Lulu my entire life. I don't know why.
But my bestest nickname is my rap name, LilZ.
My childhood nickname started out as Audie-Re a combo of Audra Marie which was shortened to Re-Re and then Re. At some point in my teens my parents decided I was humiliated by my nickname even though I wasn't and stopped using it.
Now I most often go by Mommy. *sigh* lol
Most of my nicknames are variations of Bev: bevtastic, beverino, bevers, bevelaqua, the Bevinator, and Bevy, which is probably the most frequently-used. I like them all. I have one friend who calls me Beav/Beavis or Beaver, which is... what it is.
I prefer El Duderino.
Most folks call me "Jan" which is an Anglicised attempt at pronouncing my name - French "Jeanne".
My best mate calls me "Jani" and "Spacecake" ('cos I call him "Cupcake").
To the dogwalkers in the park I am "Roxie's mum"!
Almost everyone calls me Di. A few friends call me hooch, short for hoochie, which was derived from an old username I had on an Internet forum at one point.
Friends call me CJ or C-Mac, but I got no friends.
Wife calls me Boo and Care-Bear. I can't believe I just admitted that.
Growing up, friends called me Ace, because i was good at video games. I still use it now because I am still good at video games, LOL. My kids just call me pops,now though.
My Mom called(s) me Flossie, always has. SHe sais its because as a small child I hated anything with ribbons, lace or too girly. I would wear shoes or dresses or let her curl my hair, so Flossie, I guess took the place of all the girly stuff. She still calls me that, especially when I show up in anything non-girly!
My hubby calls me Bell, LoriBell, not sure why, but I like it!
I got rigged with "Racecar" (cuz I hated to drive), "Dudeman" (cuz I call everyone dude) and "Mugrat" (from Margaret)
my dad has always called me "snicks"...short for "snickerdoodle".
Mama,
you'll always be 'Apricot' to me.
Tooner, Toonces, Puna.
I don't know where the Tooner came from. I know my dad started it when I was a baby. My sister changed it into Toonces (after the SNL Toonces the driving cat). Then my niece couldn't pronounce Tooner, so it turned into Puna and that's one has pretty much stuck ever since.
Sometimes they call me Pun.
None of which are close to my actual name. LOL
I am Smokiechick because a very long time ago - I was Smokie's chick. He was Smokie for the same reasons we got together: constant cloud of smoke, grey clothes (because theatre blacks fade in the wash), and smoky eye make-up. I've been Smokiechick online for about ten years now. I''ve quit theatre, smoking, and makeup since then. But dammit, I'm keeping it.
My dad called me McGillicuddy. It's either for a character in one of his favorite children's books or the schnapps guy.
My mom calls me Nikki. Before I talked I made little clicking noises with my tongue.
I also get called Momma a lot too.
Oh and my dad calls me Dolly.
Skeezix was, I believe a comic strip character from the early
1900s. My Grandpa used it too, along with calling us Snookums.
My name WAS Janet and I hated being called Jan, so I never really had a nickname. My name isn't Janet anymore so that one is moot. It isn't really Stacy either!
I've never had a nickname I liked or will answer to. Nope, not being a snot. Somehow, my brain just doesn't recognize any of the 29 variations of "Elizabeth" as being my name. I've had people address me as "Liz" to my face until they're practically screaming it, and I look around to see to whom they're talking.
"Keeorp" is not a nickname. It's the pronunciation of a vocal warm-up from choir. I stole it from my choir director for my e-mail address.
The ex tried to give me a nickname. Explains a lot.
I sign off as "E" mostly because I'm too lazy to type out all nine letters of my name.
E
You can call me Chesty LaRue or Hootie McBoobs.
"Pegret" here; my college buddy Petey called me that, a combination of Margaret and Peggy. I loved it, no one calls me that anymore. Sigh. At "Christian" youth group camp, the kids called me "Maggot" instead of Margaret. People wonder why I am Jewish.. Heh.
(not) Stacy, you got it. Skeezix was some abandoned child in Gasoline Alley. Apparently it means 'motherless calf'. Nice.
Elizabeth: I'm glad I'm not the only one being lazy and signing E in my emails.
I started using Lefty when I joined a woodworking forum. It was a (too) subtle joke about loosing my right hand in a hideous shop accident. I've been using it since, not so much to hide my identity, but from tradition.
I've been known as Rick, Boo, and Pimp Daddy at different points in my life. My mommy called me Boo and still does some times.
Real name: Eric.
When I was young (and still to this day) my parents and close family called me "Budman". This is because I was born in Chicago and back then Harry Caray used to do Budweiser commercials in which he would say "I'm a Bud man and I'm a Cubs fan". For some reason instead of calling me "Cub's fan" they called me "Bud man". Funny how prophetic these things turn out to be haha.
When I was about 4 my mom took me to get my hair cut and the by a woman she knew, the woman decided to give me a perm (which my mom did not want) and poof! I had an afro. My cousins teased me by calling me "Afro Amber." Usually followed by the blowing of a large conch shell. It was really awesome being a little white girl with a big blonde afro that would go flat every time there was a breeze. I can laugh through my pain now.
My husband calls me "Goddess of my Gonads." LOL
Um Samsmama - Let's not forget about your new nick name - "Boob Sweat".
Um Samsmama - Let's not forget about your new nick name - "Boob Sweat".
Yeah, not sure why that posted twice....
rev, i had no idea you were tall. i'm tall, too but you dwarf me since i am only 5'10". :)
my family's childhood nickname for me was "teeny" and it has stuck well into my 30s - my mom and dad both still call me teeny.
my brother and sister and BFFs call me Ader, short for Adrianne.
Courtney, AKA "Ass Sweat", you know you can delete one of those, right?
Poor MoFM. Her name looks so sad in black.
"tavcanada" was an online name I created when we moved abroad in 2000...combo of my last name and my maple leaf pride. :o)
IRL I'm Laura which my brother could not pronounce so he called me "Ra" and it stuck. Sadly not the "sun god". In school I became "Berrywoman" (last name Berry) and I'm still called that by some of my friends. I was called "Ducky" for years by a best friend as a homage to our love for "Pretty in Pink" and the fact that as a ballet dancer I walked like a duck...LOL
Nowadays I'm: "Mom" (or "MOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM", "Darling Daughter" and "Sweatheart/Lovie". I'll take all of them. :o)
Boo & Care-Bear, eh? Awwwwwwwwww..........
Skeezix! My sister and I called my brother that for AGES whilst we were growing up! I call Maxman that from time to time when he's being a butthead. I'm so proud another generation in my family will take on that nickname.
And yeah, we knew exactly where it came from...Gasoline Alley. Sometimes I felt like we were the only ones who read it.
I have a nickname I use on line--Yorkie--that a whole world of people know me as. IRL, I have a nickname I've been going by since I was 16...my Uni profs called me by it, and so does my hubby. I won't post it here because I don't want people to laugh or possibly recognise me...!
Mama always called me her Little Cross To Bear. I didn't get it until I was older.
This is a good post, Care Bear. =P
MoFM - you're still tall -- I'm just freakishly taller. It's mega hard finding jeans, I can tell you that much.
I've never really had a nickname. Does "bitch" count LOL Rhonda just doesn't really lend itself to nicknames. Although, people sing to me alot:)
For the first 22 years of my life everyone called me "Angel". Then I entered the working world and decided to go by my real name. Many (many) years later, occasionally my husband will slip and call me "Angel" around others. Usually I get an "Oh - that's so sweet that he calls you Angel!" remark. Uh, no, it's not sweet - it's my name!
When my son was in preschool he would call me Mommy Angel. And now he sends me text messages that he hates me. Sigh. He's all grown up.
My poor SIL has been saddled with the nickname "Mimi" which is NOTHING like her name and was way before the Drew Carey Show. My son started calling her that when he was a baby and now 21 years later everyone in the family calls her Mimi.
Kelsey Corn Dog, my name is Kelsey and the first two words I could write and spell correctly were corn and dog. I've never even had a dog.
I was one of the smallest kids in my high school. I had a friend who always called me Shorty; I'm not even sure she knew my real name.
A jerky guy in high school thought I was psycho and had a temper, so he called Mad Dog.
My mother has a couple embarrasing nicknames for me:
*Jellybean (because I was born close to Easter)
*Thumper (When I get grouchy or impatient, she says I look and act like the rabbit from "Bambi)
When I got to college, I joined a coed club for criminal justice majors. Because I'm a black belt in shaolin, my "brothers and sisters" call me either Crouching Tiger or Jet Little ("She's like Jet Li, but little").
Rev - Woohoo, another tall chick! Doesn't it make dating interesting?
Most people I know will call me some variation of Amy:
Aim
Aimer
Aimster
Ames
Amylou
...and I like 'em all...
My dad, however, still insists on calling me by my childhood nickname, usually in large crowds and especially on the rare occasion I have a date: "Bitsy." Oh how much fun that is. "What did he just call you?!!!" Geez.
Of the countless ones that a name like "Phil" provides, the most creative one I had was in HS: "Salt." Turns out, on a class trip, some folks were coming up with nicknames for everyone, an exercise which usually gets very weird very fast. For me, they went from Phil -to- Philip-to- Flip -to- Somersault -to- Salt. Or, to class things up, NaCl in the yearbook.
being of Polish heritage (and unable to change a lightbulb without help), "Stosh" was always a standard issue nickname...
In college, my football buddies called me "Stanky" - presumably because my last name is Stankowski and not because of any odors I may have been emanating - after getting a grim reaper tattoo, they started calling me 'satan joe'. go figure.
No nicknames except by Mom & Dad. They called me Kak. Mom's gone now but Dad still calls me Kak. I'm 57 years old now and it makes me kinda sad that when he is gone nobody will ever call me Kak again.
"Big Dick McGee".
Mom always came up with the cutest nicknames.
She could tell right away, you were bad to the bone.
One of my nicknames was Henry, because everyone in our group of friends had a redneck guy's name, LOL. We had Leroy, Earl, Bubba, and a couple of others.
Favorite nickname ever is the one I gave to my little sister. I call her Pocketlint ^_^ Came into being one day when I was in high school, going to the payphone and sorting through the change in my pocket. She wanted to come with and I was distracted by the pocket lint I had pulled out with my change. I told her, "Sure, c'mon Pocketlint." Mom pointed out what I had called her and it stuck. She is now almost 17 and I still call her that. ^_^
Katie Mac / KT Mac -- Kate + Irish maiden name (also KT because my name is Katherine Theresa)
Red Barge of Garbage -- I'm a redhead. My mother nicknamed me this, God help me. She claims it was a play on "Red Badge of Courage." This is a nickname I've had all my life. I don't think anyone's called me Red Barge since my mom died in 2008.
Red McFred/Freddie/Frederica
Kiki
Katerick Claire
Katerina Splaterina (I have a tendency to fall)
McEntree -- In honor of all the times an "R" was added to my last name
KT which morphed into KT Oslin (the country singer) which then morphed into Miss Oslin.
Katie MacEngeek
I've also been called Red or Coppertop.
Amers, after the damn dog's nickname which was Alfers (for Alfie).
And hubby still can't get his older relatives to stop calling him Jackie. Since he's a Jr., the family called him "Jack" for his middle name - hence "Jackie" when he was little.
My friends usually referred to me as "Shaggy DA", because I had the poofy mid-80's perm/A-frame hair going on.
My favorite nickname of all time belonged to my short little Korean friend - we called him Nuprin because he was "Little. Yellow. Different."
Care Bear, yeah... it does. My boyfriend is 5'6". haha. It's definitely turned some heads. More heads than I can count anymore actually.
Needless to say, I never wear heals.
My last name is Stufflebeam,
Need I say more?
When I was younger my aunts and uncles on my mom's side of the family ALL called me Byron because I was the spitting image of one of my dead relatives. They showed me pictures once, it was kinda freaky seeing my face on another guy's body.
As I grew up I got all the variations on my name: Cameron.
Cam, Cameroon, Camshaft, etc...
When I was younger(around 7 or so)I went camping with family for the whole summer. At that time I was a chubby litle fucker and never turned down a meal. Also around that time I had lost my juvenile front teeth.
Family members(not strangers... family members)starting calling me greedy the first week of our camping adventure and it continued on.
That is until one day I had had enough and proclaimed "I AM NOT GEEDY!"
From that point until the camping trip was over my designated nickname was "Geedy".
I blocked one: I had a boyfriend in high school who used to call me Sweetums. He was Romanian and had no idea that that was the name of the biggest, hairiest Muppet. I asked him to stop, at least in public, but it just made him more vocal about it.
real name:
vicki. not a nickname, not short for anything. srsly.
nicknames:
-wickipedia (i collect facts)
-bicks pickles
-vicks cough drops
-vickaroni and cheese
-the filterless wonderrrrrr (i'll say anyTHING to anyBODY)
-the black hole (not as sexy as it sounsd)
-dumbass, stupid twit (thanks dad!)
I have nicknames only the hub calls me. Babezilla for one.
The only other nickname I had outside immediate circle was Mel. Manly. Bleah. I made people give that up as I got older and, even way back when, neither my dad nor my husband or his family would ever call me that.
Now I have a lot of friends who call me Meli. It started from friends from Central or South America. They ALL, on their own, called me Meli from the start. I have no idea why. I don't know how that's cultural though it must have been. But it spread to some of my other friends as well. And it's at least female-sounding, so it's fine. ;)
All through high school my brothers' friends called me "jo." It was a small miracle that my brothers never told them that it was short for jo-jo the dogfaced boy...
My middle name is Avis, so in high school they called me Hertz.
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