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If so how did you acquire it ? Do you like name or does it offend? Mau :O))

I had several nicknames in the past - most of them very uncomplimentary. I'm not saying what they were, but one had something to do with a horse. I was called Cher by lots of people, especially younger girls at school, because I looked like her before she had the surgery. CB >|<

This will astound you, but my nickname is Little Nell! My dad gave it to be after a BBC production of The Old Curiosity Shop was on tv. My family call me Nell and folk on these boards do - there are lots of Helens on this site! I had a sort-of boyfriend when I was at college who called me Bubbles, because he said I was effervescent, which I think is a polite way of saying p*ssed! At work I got called Hell-Vixen too. I liked all of these. If someone calls me a name I don't like, I don't answer. nell

at school i was called 4half fingers cos i lost part of it when i was 2 it used to upset me but i never let them see that it did!! love joycexx

Bec! I was 'Titch' at Secondary School because I was short. Now I prefer Bec, Becs, Becx or Beautiful! lol xx

Because of my surname at school was Pigeonsh*t not very nice but then it was either that or Duracell, coppertop to name just a few. Hubby calls me Tiger because of my temper and a lot of the family call me Dawnie which lengthens my name. Was also called tuppence by my dad. Hubby was called Ted by his parents as his dad worked in a mental hospital and they had a patient called ted who my hubby looked like! Eldest calls him Baldilocks and the three hairs.

My father called me Pickle - because I was always getting 'in a pickle'. Hubby calls me Trouble - because I usually find it !! LOL

The only one I can admit to without getting this thread removed is 'Big D'. Some thing to do with being 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing around 21 stone. (Thats 294 pounds to our cousins across the pond). Derek

This will come as a huge surprise to everyone but my nickname is Daisy!!

my husbands family call him 'bat n ball', cockney slang for ' paul'. i call him 'batty' coz he's a nutcase. my nickname was, and still is 'baby doll'. we call my son Rix as his name is Ricky and my daughter was called gob head coz she shouted alot as a child. now we just call her 'h'. her name is hailee (pronounced hilee). all gary's are called 'garybaldi'. and i ahve noticed if you have a short name it gets lengthened and if you have a long name it gets shortened. why is this?

Thanks folks. Some very amusing names. The cruellest ones are nearly all from school-days aren't they? Was reading a newspaper article this morning about nicknames and their origins. They were ekenames, an extra name, then over time it changed from 'an ekename' to a nickname. i laughed at the part where it said in ancient Egypt there are records of people being called Red,Baldy,Lazy and Ape. Usually given as an affection by your friends and family or to describe a famous person, ie Elvis(the pelvis) The Iron Lady ( Margaret Thatcher) Anne Widdecombe ( Doris Karloff) How many more can you think of? Mau xx :0))

mine are just boring really.......Jill, jilly, Holbee (old MSN name!)

I guess the above is a sort of nickname I got here on the boards (long story but blame BC!). I once was called 'mouse' at a kind of summer school thing (it was a week at Easter) I went to once for classics. Also, my sister called me Saz for a while, which I hated. Apart from that though... not really had a proper nickname as such!

My father calls me Bizzie Lizzie, because I keep moving furniture like his grandmother Elizabeth. My nan use to call me Fan Ann - don't know why but my little cousin got called it too. Lunar is a nickname I got last time Britain had a full solar eclipse. My brother had a summer school class on an enviromental theme, and everyone had to have an eco name. As I helped out I needed one too, but went overboard with Lunar-Aqua-Solar-Terra, so it got shortened to Lunar and it's stuck.

In the 60's used to be called Twiggy, blond, tall, slim, leggy, stylish, look at me now, old, fat, frumpy, where did it all go. Nevermind have 2 stylish daughers, 1 good looking son, 2 beautifull grandchildren, that's what it's all about. Carol

son calls me little un, cos hes taller than me now, son in law calls me mummy julie hubby calls me what ever he can lay his tongue to lol

I never really had a nickname at school, just the usual 'Smiffy' type. A few years ago, I was playing football with the lads at work, and one of them, trying to 'encourage me' shouted something along the lines of 'oi chunks, move your a*se'. The name chunks kind of stuck, and although it was meant as a derogative thing, I didn't mind it that much. Since then its changed (online at least) from chunks, to chunky, and now to cheeky... Paul

Not now but as a schoolboy I was called 'carrots'. It was not so much the colour of my hair as its shape reminded people of the foliage.. Len

I really like my name so I don't take kindly to nicknames. People have tried to call me Fliss and my ex refused to call me anything else but that and I was stupid(?) enough to let him get away with it, but I'm so glad that no-one calls me that now. My ex-mother-in-law used to refer to me as Fanny Fernackapan. I've no idea where she got that from and she never called me that to my face. Does anyone heard that name? She said she hadn't invented it but didn't know where she'd heard it.

Felicity I have heard of Fananne Fernackapan from my childhood. I've looked it up on Google but no one seems to have a definite answer for it's use. When I was young I used to blush when my Grandmother called me Jane Ann Teacake !! Did she make it up or was it because I liked ( and still do ) teacakes LoL Felicity is a lovely name. Mau x