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Beth54


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Do you have an interesting nickname? Or someone you know? And how did it come about?

My girlfriends hubby calls me Beff, because he can't say 'th'. So she will often call me Beff when stirring.

Next thing I know, my old schoolfriend Carol (a GN member) starts calling me Beff too.

So the next time I answered a message from her calling me Beff, I called her Cazzawazza. She said she hadn't been called that since primary school! As we were at primary school together, I said it must have been way back in the dim dark recesses of my memory banks. biggrin

Taking up this topic with another couple of friends, we started discussing the names hubbys or partners call each other. My ex always called me Hon, never Beth. We've been divorced for 20+ years and he now calls me chooky! Awww! aww 

 



-- Edited by Beth54 on Friday 19th of April 2013 06:21:32 PM

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I got Grace for years because of my last name, Kelly. Never bothered me at all. But the boss's daughter renamed me Disgrace hehe. One of the girls I worked with was as vague as all getout, so I nicknamed her Vera and it stuck. I don't move in those circles any more but I still get Gazza. One friend was happy just to call me G.

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I was very thin when young and my nickname was straw. Wish I was as thin now.

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A mate of mine had one of those double surnames.

Velcro_cox we simply referred to him as Sticky Dicky

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I was skinny finny, my last name was Finlayson and I was skinny, still am when I come to think about it...............Hubby is Neville so he just gets nifty.

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I am Marty...........yes Always called marty farty.Oh the shame of it all.Lol.aww



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smilesmilesmilesmilesmilesmilesmilesmilesmilesmilesmilesmilesmilesmile.................



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My nickname is Bear too...When the Casino first opened in Perth, I went with a few mates, looked around, and said "If all these girls are over 18 then I am a koala bear". It just stuck from then on !!!

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When I was young Mum started calling me Puss in Boots but then later on shortened it to just Puss and that is usually what she called me either that or Shell/Shelley.  But by crikey when she was ticked off at me she would say the whole damn thing. . . .  Michelle Fay Nolan get here now!!!!  Those were the times I wanted to become invisable hehehehe.  I have called my sister Debbie Daks for years.  Her name is Debra but she has always been called Deb even on her business cards it is Deb.  Ray my hubby was always called Raymo by his sisters and Menser by me.  

When I had my first baby Courtney I chose a name that you could not shorten without it sounding ridiculous but her cousins always called her Tennis as in Tennis Court lol. . .I just can't win!biggrin



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No secret in how I got mine, Plenderleith is just too long.

A friend of mine is called Splinter, his real name is Garry Wood****.

The third in the group was Dick, real name Chris Tacy, close enough to Dick Tracey for us.

 



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when I was a kid growing up on the farm at Wattamolla near Berry nsw I was always called the Wattamolla wild cat...
then eventually I started getting called Milo (wonder why??)not for the Milo and Otis movie !!

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milo wrote:


then eventually I started getting called Milo (wonder why??)

 Yes. We do ???



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When I lived in the tiny town of Cadoux, central wheatbelt WA, everybody had a nick name. A new reporter for the local paper had to write up the cricket results.....It read like this: Phantom bowled Steiger, caught by Clown.

Very few people knew their real names !!!

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Sometimes surnames have certain nicknames that just seem to happen .

eg.  Rusty Carr , Lefty Malone , Bakka Bourke .



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And all that reminds me of when I first started work at 14 in a government office. There was a midget bloke there, Jim McGuinness, and he nicknamed me Gary Patrick Thomas Francis O'Dooley Kelly, something I've never forgotten. That was 55 years ago.

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Beth54 wrote:

Michelle, my sister is also Debra and has always been called Deb by those close to her.

 

I've never been one to give nicknames to people. Or to call friends or family love, dear or anything similar.

 Beth I always call younger girls hun or gorgeous or beautiful just to lift their spirit because a lot of young women need that today.  I call my 4 yr old grandaughter Bloss (for blossom), my sweet girl, nannies girl and plenty others lol.

Michelle

 



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I worked once with a bloke we named "Lightening" - never found him in the same place twice
I also worked with an old nursing sister we called "Seagull"- all in white, and flapped, squawked and s**t on everyone- and I remember the doctor we called "Circ" - tall, thin, bald and wore polo-necked shirts (in the '70's).


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Rip and Rosie wrote:

I worked once with a bloke we named "Lightening" - never found him in the same place twice
I also worked with an old nursing sister we called "Seagull"- all in white, and flapped, squawked and s**t on everyone- and I remember the doctor we called "Circ" - tall, thin, bald and wore polo-necked shirts (in the '70's).

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My sons name is Christopher - when he was little, the kid next door couldn't say that so called him "Topha" - he still uses that that even now!

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Growing up I was called all sorts of names! Ginge, Freckles, Foureyes, etc never called a ranga though.the names that stuck were Blue and Blue Dog.
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When my youngest daughter daughter (Noela) was born elder daughter couldn't say Noela & called her NoNo & she still asnwers to that after nearly 50 years.

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My mum and dad always called me Fanny!

Its an English thing...a term of endearment. Fanny Fanackerpan.

My husband kept the name going....but as the years have passed, its meaning has changed a bit!!
My grandkids have their little giggles as they think its funny. Sometimes we get a few weird looks when hubby
calls out to me in the supermarket !!!

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jan-ed wrote:

My mum and dad always called me Fanny!

Its an English thing...a term of endearment. Fanny Fanackerpan.

My husband kept the name going....but as the years have passed, its meaning has changed a bit!!
My grandkids have their little giggles as they think its funny. Sometimes we get a few weird looks when hubby
calls out to me in the supermarket !!!

 Sorry jan-ed but that IS funny!  It's a pity for you that it's meaning has changed.

I know an elderly English lady with the nickname of Bunty..that's the spelling, but she pronounces it Boonty. An English person may know the history of that nickname.



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Beth54 wrote:
jan-ed wrote:

My mum and dad always called me Fanny!

Its an English thing...a term of endearment. Fanny Fanackerpan.

My husband kept the name going....but as the years have passed, its meaning has changed a bit!!
My grandkids have their little giggles as they think its funny. Sometimes we get a few weird looks when hubby
calls out to me in the supermarket !!!

 Sorry jan-ed but that IS funny!  It's a pity for you that it's meaning has changed.

I know an elderly English lady with the nickname of Bunty..that's the spelling, but she pronounces it Boonty. An English person may know the history of that nickname.

 It is funny Beth!!!  It was always the norm for me...but i do get very strange looks at times. When i was naughty..i would get "Lizzy Jane" as well.

No doubt another very English thing!!  Trouble is...i think Mum and Dad forget i was born in Oz...and our language has different meanings here!!!

Scarred for life i am biggrinbiggrinbiggrin



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jan-ed wrote:
 

Scarred for life i am biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

  



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When i was a kid, i got Shank, as i used to ride a horse. (Shankses Pony) 

now i get the obvious: Birdy (names Bird)

worked with a bloke they called Aspro (slow working dope)



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I worked with a manager we called vomit.

Mention a subject, he would bring it up at the next meeting.biggrin

Me, too many.

Dick.



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Was in the army with a guy we nic named Mirror , as he would always say .. i will bring that idea up at the next meeting.

Also worked with a male nurse over in a mine in WA we used to call Morphine....slow working dope.



-- Edited by herbie on Monday 22nd of April 2013 12:13:43 AM

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are you full of energy?  Milo that is..



-- Edited by gold dandelion on Sunday 21st of April 2013 11:11:29 PM

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LOL Birdy, we had one of those but we called him opium, another one was hydraulic ( short for hydraulic jack) cos he'd lift anything.. and another one called ankles, but i can't tell you why he was called that on this forum.. LOL

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