What is the strangest nickname you have ever encountered?

At a new high school I had just joined, I had just made friends with the cool crowd, and this beautiful girl with long white blond hair walked past. The people told me there goes “Drip”. She was the sister of one of the crowd. To this day, I have no idea why they called her Drip. But yeah I called her that too!

“The Good Typhoid”

There was this kinda nasty girl that attended a club we frequented.

Once we saw a roach exit her hair. Kinda rough looking too. We started calling her Typhoid Mary.

Later the local Bennetton got a new manager. She was a sweet girl but looked like Typhoid Mary.

There was also a fellow at our school we called “Fresh Showered Look.”

We used to call one of my friends in middle school Iggie. The adults all thought is was because his last name was England. The truth was he looked kinda like the little marginal notes cartoon character in our science books named, you know, Iggie.

My kids’ family nicknames are odd-ish. All loosely based on sound-alikes of their names: JessieBean (jellybean) also, from the ‘bean’ part, she’s known as ElCabino (ElCamino), then there’s MaddieSnakes (patty cake) and Laineybug (lady bug).

My own family nickname is a lot weirder, if you ask me… I am known as Lisa Pooh Noodle (frequently shortened to just ‘Pooh’). Because when I was little, I loved Winnie the Pooh and I ‘used my noodle’. It was a combo that stuck. I will never forget being in a restaurant when I was in my thirties, and hearing someone say “Pooh?” from the other side of the room. It was my grandfather, unexpectedly in the same restaurant, calling me loud enough that everyone heard my nickname. Nice.

Funny you should ask this today…I saw a picture of a dodo bird and somehow it reminded me that my boyfriend years ago used to call me doo doo. I laughed a lot the first time he said it. I said, that’s not a very nice nickname! He explained that it meant darling in patois. Here’s proof that he wasn’t lying! In the Caribbean it is a term of endearment. He also used to call me tifi which is patois for petite fille or little girl. I liked that nickname, it sounded so sweet.

I am spoiled for choice. Almost everyone at my school and later at University had a nickname. These are some of them:

Ferret, Wick, W.C., Smeesh, Butchie, Floss, Zoog, Gubber, Spud and Jake.

I never could understand “Butch” as a nickname. The latest one is Honey Boo Boo whose mother turned that nickname (and her daughter) into a very lucrative TV show.

I never even thought about family nicknames. Familiarity makes them seem normal to me.

The oldest boy is Buda.
The middle boy is Keek.
The youngest, my daughter, is Squirrel.

Once, I met the mother of a reasonably influential “Young Democrat” in my state. She was probably in her late 40s or 50s, and while I’m not 100% on the spelling, they introduced her as “cooch.”

A friend of mine husband has nicknamed her Pain.
The name must be fitting because all her friends and siblings call her by that name also.

My friends and family have never called me by my given name. It started when I came home from the hospital and my grandfather gave me a nickname that still sticks. In high school I had tons of nicknames. If someone called asking for someone other than my family, they handed the phone to me. In college I had about 5 nicknames.Now I answer to anything. I’d give you the names but I’d be recognized instantly because they are so unique and distinctive. If you want to know what they are PM me.

I knew a guy named “Chigger” a lot time ago.

I knew this guy named Taz. Or Tazz, I’m not sure how you spell it. He was some guy on the street who sold drugs, and I never knew his real name. Well, that might be slightly clever for a drug dealer…but also I didn’t like him, and stayed away from him. Not sure what the nick was for. Maybe he was named after the Tasmanian Devil, for always being so jumpy and hyper, and he was always pissed off at someone.

I have an ex friend I used to call “Pissy”, of course SHE never knew that. lol
She was a pissy personality, hence “ex” friend.

I call my daughter all sorts of names ” My little Crabcake” is a favorite. I invent new ones every time I call her. I call her boyfriend ” Markie Malarky”

Me well….I’m not tellin’. haha

We used to call our maths teacher cunt, that’s all I got.

Oh I just remembered my roommate in college had a boyfriend whose nickname was booger.She seriously used to call him booger!