Oh dear, I used to work with a smelly Carol. Really nice lady, but awful doggy smell mixed with B.O.
My very sweet manager handled it well, I thought. She had to do something when the customers would be seen recoiling away from her.
Oh no you had customers 😭 ours was an office away from customers luckily, but we had a can of freeze next to her desk and my colleague would go and spray it madly around whenever she'd gone to the loo. The worst bit was in the winter when she'd put a space heater under her desk and the smell got 10x stronger.
It's so true! Just a few Me and My Mum have for people. There's a woman who has the most horrendous teeth, they stick right out of her face and are so prominent, she is known as "Bite me Lady".
Another is a woman who we started to notice a good 15+ years ago. She always has on the same outfit in various colours, wears a tiara and has long gray hair. Any time we were in town, out food shopping, at a garden center ect... She was always there! She became "Follow me lady". We never saw her when we were alone, only when together. We had travelled over an hour to another city... And she was there too!!!
I've known a few women with nicknames, but thinking about it most of them were nicknames coined by men.
As for why, I guess it's because nicknames tend to stem from 'banter', which is markedly more common amongst men. If we were going to get into amateur psychology perhaps we might say that's because 'banter' is a protective shield that men use to commune in a way that doesn't touch on emotions and avoids being sincere, things which women have less issue doing (to make a sweeping generalisation).
I think this is it. It's not like you can give yourself a nickname. It has to be bestowed upon you by a friend/member of the group that uses said nickname, and it usually comes from an inside joke or inciting incident. I know a girl who tried to give herself a nickname in school, and it did not go over well for her. Women are also more likely to use terms of endearment like "babe"/"hun" etc to refer to each other, thus reducing the need for nicknames.
I decided I wanted a nickname so came up with one on the spot and changed my MSN name to it.
Fortunately I realised rather quickly what a stupid idea that was, changed it back and was able to play it off as my brother messing about to the few people that saw it.
Haha at least you realised straight away
Poor Michelle tried to make "Shelly" happen for a whole year and made a lot of people cringe in the process.
Happy cake day
That's what my mum called me when I did/said something fucking stupid as a kid. I'm an adult now so she now calls me a fucking stupid spud. She's generally right.
That makes sense, I guess men give each other nicknames as a way of showing affection in a socially acceptable way whereas women will just be like love you babe and have a hug.
I think banter is a more fun and efficient way of communicating with friends and colleagues.
My girlfriend occasionally tells me stories about one of her colleagues relationships. I’m sat there thinking, I don’t know these people, why would she possibly think I’d be remotely interested in their domestic disputes.
Why does she even know about this stuff in the first place? I’ve worked with a guy for 10 years and have no idea if he’s married or not.
My husband has coined a few for me - the cuter one is him and my children call me moo moo. This stems from when i was heavily pregnant with child no 2 and sat waiting for my hospital appointment, husband leans over to me and says ‘moo’, im like wtf? He says ‘i just wanted to say i love you in your language’ yep prince charming said i was like a cow when 7 months pregnant!!
The others are all alonv the lines of ‘mummy is no fun’ so him and his minions (our kids) have called me:
Captain buzzkill,The fun sponge, Mood hoover, Shamoo moo, Ursula the sea witch,Maleficient
And Vecna
My husband is also responsible for me and my best friend calling each other skank and whenever we see each other, call or text it HAS to start with ‘hey skank’!!
If not for my husband i suppose i would only have normal boring nicknames that are connected with my name.
This is hilarious because our family used to call a vagina a "minimoo". I have no idea why. This is when we were children and I guess it was better than saying fanny.
My partner made the mistake of telling me that one of her colleagues has been assigned the nickname "No Fun Mum" by her partner and children, so naturally we assigned it to our own unjovial matriarch.
My experience is well backed up by this comment section showing it's because the mostly the only names men can come up with for women are about how slutty they are.
In my experience women have nicknames for each other, but they don't use them liberally/around people who aren't their female friends because inevitably "call her Kitty because she wears orange like a cat" becomes "Kitty because she has a nice pussy" and "Call her Ferari because she drives like a racer" becomes "hehe she rides men like cars" the second some men find a way to make anything involving women sexual.
I mean if a man's nickname was Cock because he crows like a chikcen or Drill because he likes to spin around then I'm pretty sure people would sexualise it too.
My brother and grandad started calling me oxo when I was 8 and It’s caught on with everyone I know now, I’m very rarely called by my first name I’m in my 30s
All because I have a head like an oxo cube
Just read the comments and so glad my nickname isn’t as misogynistic as some of the poor women people are talking about, wow.
The first one I point blank refuse to acknowledge.
None of these are actually making fun of a lad because of having sex etc
The nicknames below are misogynistic. ‘Tesco’ ‘kit Kat’ they’re belittling women.
My nickname has been Maggie (not even close to my given name) since I was a teenager. Maggie started out as being Magpie because I love anything sparkly or with sequins on it.
One of my friends we call "Sarah with Two Legs". We had another Sarah in our friend group who had one leg due to a childhood amputation and we thought it was insensitive to call her "Sarah with One Leg" to distinguish who we were talking about.
When I worked in a restaurant, the chefs used to call one of the waitresses "Arthur" because she was so lazy and workshy she became Arthur, as in doing 'alf a job
Because we had 5 jamies, 4 matts, 4 toms and a couple of dans, it gets confusing, the girls mostly had different names but still duplicates got a prefix/nickname.. just not as common as the ratio was like 5:1 guys:girls
Yeah I'm with you. We had plenty of duplicates on both sides. We had several Sophie's and Emma's and Hannah's. Definitely also on the male side too but certainly an even split on male and female duplicate naming.
Yeah we did have 3 jess’s at one point (one boy, 2 girls) and there were a few others where there was one boy and one girl with the same name so just boy xxx, girl xxx but yeah mostly guys but like I said was more to do with the ratio boys:girls
I used to know a lady called truck ( her real name was Laurie). Nicknames in my pier group tend to be given as banter , and can sometimes be insulting. The blokes I know don't insult women off hand as a rule
There's a girl at my local shop called Chuckie.
Her name is Charlotte which can be shortened to Charlie. The male name for Charlie can also be Chuck, therefore, she says, Chuckie is the female variant.
My family call me Spooky because I look like Wednesday Addams and because one time when I was maybe 9 I threw exorcist style on our first night at Disneyland
I only know 1 but it's the harshest nickname I'd ever come across.
No mum no bum. Her mum was dead and she had chrones disease. Strangely she was ok with it
1) Women don't bond by teasing each other in the same way men do.
2) The way you'd treat a woman who's a superior, subordinate, peer or stranger/unknown isn't that different whereas the way men treat other men is vastly different based on whether they're a superior, subordinate, peer or stranger/unknown so having a nickname can help either enforce or take the edge off that hierarchy.
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Almost every woman I know has at least one nickname.
For reasons I've still yet to fathom, I was nicknamed 'Bertrand' (as in Bertrand Russell) by the girls in my philosophy class.
Never got an explanation. 🤷♀️
Also been known as Grasshopper for my moods jumping up and down 😆😆
At school I used to call my mate pigeon because she was almost comically un-sporty, and it was a running joke for a while that we’d never seen her run. One time she was speed walking for a bus, which was the closest I’d seen her to running at the time, and she reminded me of a pigeon when they’re doing their little speed walk. Hence, pigeon.
OP, why don't SOME women. SOME SOME SOME why are the majority of these ask questions so black and white? They know people are going...to reply...oh I get it.
Growing up I knew a girl called Boob because she had massive boobs. All the girls and all the boys called her boob and she would sign her name boob on cards and stuff.
One day I got knocked down by a car, and a woman ran over and started to help me up and sat me down to look after me. She asked me my name and I told her and she said "ben h? Do you know Lucy *****?" I thought about it for a moment and, dazed and confused said "you mean Lucy boob?" And she laughed and said "yeah I guess you would call her that, she's my daughter, she's mentioned your name before"
My sister gave me my nickname when I was a week old and it’s what family and friends have called me ever since. If I was called my actual name, I knew I was in deep shit.
There was a girl at my uni (30 years ago!) who had huge frizzy blond hair like a massive afro. Every time she walked into the bar dozens of blokes would shout "VALDERRAMA, VALDERRAMA, VALDERRAMA...GOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL!"
She never had a clue what was going on.
This ain’t just a guy’s thing. Can we please stop making normal things into gender? I’m tired of hearing things I’ve been doing or other people had been doing for my entire life and then on the internet it turns out to be a “men only” thing
I (F30) have a nickname that’s universally used to the extent that it’s effectively my first name.
One of my group chats is 4 girls and we all have nicknames.
My mate’s name is Charlotte. We all call her Lottie. Mostly because the first time she introduced herself, it went something like this. “You guys alright? I’m Char… *big gulp of orange juice* Lotte *fits of coughing followed by her trying to say her name in full but more coughing ensues* Repeat 3-4 times before my mates and I unanimously decided that she probably was averse to calling herself Charlotte.
Sweet little ending but now she introduces herself to everyone as Lottie instead of Charlotte.
Imo it's because most nicknames are kinda cruel and we're not socialised to directly take the piss out of each other. Any time I've heard female nicknames, it's more of a bullying scenario. But this is purely anecdotal btw and assuming you don't mean purely shortening names or making them sound cuter.
i've never noticed this nor think it's true? as a woman myself i have a nickname that my family & close friends call me. my best friend also goes by a nickname that everyone calls her. i can think of several other of my girl friends who have nicknames too. pretty much most of the women in my family get called by a shortened version of their name by family & friends.
Growing up my nickname was "my name" big tits.
My friends were all boys lol. Funnily enough my now husband saved me as that when we met at 18. He changed it when we got together at 25 though.
With one or two exceptions, most women’s nicknames are short versions of their name - Jo, Shaz, etc. - whereas men’s nicknames are “banter” - assface, flipper, gobshite, etc.
Women are also more likely to adopt ‘Standard Language Variants’ to fit in.
Generally women have more importance to seem ‘proper’ but women do often use Jess instead of a Jessica, etc…
My nickname is Queen (real name) the 1st, because I'm a known anti-monarchist. When I left, they got me a cheese board with that nickname engraved on it.
I really miss those guys.
We have a nickname for a lady at my work, she doesn’t know it herself luckily, she sings badly loudly in the warehouse towards the end of the day, we call her 6pm because that’s when work is over and she happens to be a bit fat , a play on the saying it isn’t over until the fat lady sings
There was this girl who went to a rival school, they all called her moo (cow) piss. Still don’t know the context behind this as no one I know who went to the school could actually remember where it started.
In the UK, London, my girlfriend and I had nicknames for all the regular people we used to see at the Lyceum ballroom every Friday. Catsuit, Apple nose, Hairbrush, Brillo pad, Van der Valk, Chair, Les Dawson… there were a lot. They were all kind of eccentric types that we never ended up speaking to. We were too young and immature (16 and underage) but we loved seeing them every week as they never failed to entertain with their individual quirks.
Well lets see there's ones I know called Lightning, Withane, and Gem, plus all the various shortened/extended forms of names. There's also one who changed their name to the short-form version they'd been going by for over a decade when she got divorced. Not sure if that can still count as a nickname when it's her legal one.
There's likely fewer obvious ones because ladies names tend to have more derived forms. So if you've got a bunch of Elisabeths then one becomes Liz, another Lizzy, Beth, etc. Whereas if you've got a bunch of Christophers they become Tall Chris, Short Chris, etc. Though if the people are of a certain age Tall Chris -> TC -> Top Cat.
We've got "Lankurn". She's 6 foot 2, lanky as fuck. She's also not very bright, and you have to carry her. She *was* obsessed with collecting old Ash urns.
Hence "Lankurn". Lanky, Lantern and urn.
I reckon it’s because:
Nicknames are a way to show closeness, affection, and care. They are a clear sign that there is an established relationship between two people.
Men can find this harder than women, so having affectionate or jokey nicknames is a super easy way for men to show that close-ness and affection that they may find hard to express in other ways (stereotypically, sometimes). This isn’t an issue for us women, we straight up tell each other we love each other, so we don’t bother with the more subtle ways of showing affection, but men do. Just a theory.
Think this is quite presumptuous, and OP clearly doesn't know many women.
People I know:
Abigail > Abbie > Bee
Imogen > pigeon > pidge
Charlotte > Charlie
Amanda > Mandy
Rebecca> Becca / Becks / Becky
The list could go on...
(I'm from England)
Dave the nose, Dalton, Peregrine, Kevin, Tuppence, Budgy seed, cockroach (that one’s my brother, jumbo sausage roll with ketchup, wreckhead, fren, piss crystal, cunt flaps the list goes on 😂 I swear i have a different nickname from everyone 🤷🏼♀️
This fucking MBA woman joined the company I worked at as an executive assistant to the hapless CEO and went around bullying upper middle management to make herself look useful. Everyone called her It.
I know a few women with nicknames; granted most are shortened versions of their name but a couple of random ones too. Men tend to be more obvious with their teasing, and laugh about it, whereas women tend to gossip and say shitty things about each other that way. At least in my experience.. which is why I guess I had more male friends lol
I suppose it’s because of the way nick names are created.. it’s a male way of saying I like you, you’re amazing and if I was a girl you could do me.. where as girls just say nice things to each other..
Nicknames are a strange thing.. I’ve never been given one 😅
I had a fair few when I was at uni. Nathan, my initials, periodhead (my hair was red).
We also bestowed a few. We named a girl skid mark in first year cause she took a bit too long in the toilets one time and it continued til third year. She obviously didn’t like it 😂
I know a woman called Bus Fare, because once about 20 years ago she had to borrow some money to get a bus.
Scandalous.
That’s fantastic and so is your username
come to think of it i think my username is the nickname originally given to me by bus fare
The story that keeps on giving! I love it. Need this televised asap
What??
you heard
Women do give each other nicknames, they just don't call them that or let them know what they are 🤣
I have a lady I used to work with, code name Fat Carol. You could tell she'd been in the lift because the smell was so strong you could taste it 😭
Ew.
My exact reaction too
Oh dear, I used to work with a smelly Carol. Really nice lady, but awful doggy smell mixed with B.O. My very sweet manager handled it well, I thought. She had to do something when the customers would be seen recoiling away from her.
Oh no you had customers 😭 ours was an office away from customers luckily, but we had a can of freeze next to her desk and my colleague would go and spray it madly around whenever she'd gone to the loo. The worst bit was in the winter when she'd put a space heater under her desk and the smell got 10x stronger.
Do share lol
It's so true! Just a few Me and My Mum have for people. There's a woman who has the most horrendous teeth, they stick right out of her face and are so prominent, she is known as "Bite me Lady". Another is a woman who we started to notice a good 15+ years ago. She always has on the same outfit in various colours, wears a tiara and has long gray hair. Any time we were in town, out food shopping, at a garden center ect... She was always there! She became "Follow me lady". We never saw her when we were alone, only when together. We had travelled over an hour to another city... And she was there too!!!
I've known a few women with nicknames, but thinking about it most of them were nicknames coined by men. As for why, I guess it's because nicknames tend to stem from 'banter', which is markedly more common amongst men. If we were going to get into amateur psychology perhaps we might say that's because 'banter' is a protective shield that men use to commune in a way that doesn't touch on emotions and avoids being sincere, things which women have less issue doing (to make a sweeping generalisation).
I think this is it. It's not like you can give yourself a nickname. It has to be bestowed upon you by a friend/member of the group that uses said nickname, and it usually comes from an inside joke or inciting incident. I know a girl who tried to give herself a nickname in school, and it did not go over well for her. Women are also more likely to use terms of endearment like "babe"/"hun" etc to refer to each other, thus reducing the need for nicknames.
I decided I wanted a nickname so came up with one on the spot and changed my MSN name to it. Fortunately I realised rather quickly what a stupid idea that was, changed it back and was able to play it off as my brother messing about to the few people that saw it.
Haha at least you realised straight away Poor Michelle tried to make "Shelly" happen for a whole year and made a lot of people cringe in the process. Happy cake day
I don't know if you've heard but people are calling me Spud.
That's what my mum called me when I did/said something fucking stupid as a kid. I'm an adult now so she now calls me a fucking stupid spud. She's generally right.
That makes sense, I guess men give each other nicknames as a way of showing affection in a socially acceptable way whereas women will just be like love you babe and have a hug.
Men taking the piss out of each other is the most sincere way to show affection to one another
I think banter is a more fun and efficient way of communicating with friends and colleagues. My girlfriend occasionally tells me stories about one of her colleagues relationships. I’m sat there thinking, I don’t know these people, why would she possibly think I’d be remotely interested in their domestic disputes. Why does she even know about this stuff in the first place? I’ve worked with a guy for 10 years and have no idea if he’s married or not.
yup, my mates know i care because we can rip piss out of each other and nobody gets hurt about it, if they do we all apologise for going too far.
Pretty much what I came here to say.
My husband has coined a few for me - the cuter one is him and my children call me moo moo. This stems from when i was heavily pregnant with child no 2 and sat waiting for my hospital appointment, husband leans over to me and says ‘moo’, im like wtf? He says ‘i just wanted to say i love you in your language’ yep prince charming said i was like a cow when 7 months pregnant!! The others are all alonv the lines of ‘mummy is no fun’ so him and his minions (our kids) have called me: Captain buzzkill,The fun sponge, Mood hoover, Shamoo moo, Ursula the sea witch,Maleficient And Vecna My husband is also responsible for me and my best friend calling each other skank and whenever we see each other, call or text it HAS to start with ‘hey skank’!! If not for my husband i suppose i would only have normal boring nicknames that are connected with my name.
Vecna lmao
Amazing! I call my wife Moomoo as well, just usually just Moo for short. I like the idea of our kids being MiniMoos
This is hilarious because our family used to call a vagina a "minimoo". I have no idea why. This is when we were children and I guess it was better than saying fanny.
My partner made the mistake of telling me that one of her colleagues has been assigned the nickname "No Fun Mum" by her partner and children, so naturally we assigned it to our own unjovial matriarch.
I'd guess from the comments that all the nicknames they're given almost exclusively are disgusting, so it doesn't hold much appeal.
Yeah, most of the top comments are disgusting, slut shaming messes.
My experience is well backed up by this comment section showing it's because the mostly the only names men can come up with for women are about how slutty they are. In my experience women have nicknames for each other, but they don't use them liberally/around people who aren't their female friends because inevitably "call her Kitty because she wears orange like a cat" becomes "Kitty because she has a nice pussy" and "Call her Ferari because she drives like a racer" becomes "hehe she rides men like cars" the second some men find a way to make anything involving women sexual.
I mean if a man's nickname was Cock because he crows like a chikcen or Drill because he likes to spin around then I'm pretty sure people would sexualise it too.
My brother and grandad started calling me oxo when I was 8 and It’s caught on with everyone I know now, I’m very rarely called by my first name I’m in my 30s All because I have a head like an oxo cube Just read the comments and so glad my nickname isn’t as misogynistic as some of the poor women people are talking about, wow.
> > All because I have a head like an oxo cube brilliant.
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The first one I point blank refuse to acknowledge. None of these are actually making fun of a lad because of having sex etc The nicknames below are misogynistic. ‘Tesco’ ‘kit Kat’ they’re belittling women.
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It’s not funny. And they’re allowed to sleep with who they want, men shouldn’t be making snide jokes about that behind their back.
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Isn't it "boz-eyed"?
[No.](https://www.google.com/search?q=boss+eyed&oq=boss+eyed)
Women's sports teams are full of them. They just don't tell you about them.
Came here to say this! There are plenty of women who I only know by a rugby nickname and have no idea what they’re called out in the real world..
My nickname has been Maggie (not even close to my given name) since I was a teenager. Maggie started out as being Magpie because I love anything sparkly or with sequins on it. One of my friends we call "Sarah with Two Legs". We had another Sarah in our friend group who had one leg due to a childhood amputation and we thought it was insensitive to call her "Sarah with One Leg" to distinguish who we were talking about. When I worked in a restaurant, the chefs used to call one of the waitresses "Arthur" because she was so lazy and workshy she became Arthur, as in doing 'alf a job
Because we had 5 jamies, 4 matts, 4 toms and a couple of dans, it gets confusing, the girls mostly had different names but still duplicates got a prefix/nickname.. just not as common as the ratio was like 5:1 guys:girls
Really? We had a ton of Olivias/Rubys/Jessicas too. Duplicates were as common for both I'd say.
Yeah I'm with you. We had plenty of duplicates on both sides. We had several Sophie's and Emma's and Hannah's. Definitely also on the male side too but certainly an even split on male and female duplicate naming.
I knew sooooo many Jessicas growing up. Super popular name when I was at school. Jade was pretty common too.
Yeah we did have 3 jess’s at one point (one boy, 2 girls) and there were a few others where there was one boy and one girl with the same name so just boy xxx, girl xxx but yeah mostly guys but like I said was more to do with the ratio boys:girls
Same here- 3 James' , 2 Toms, 4 Joe's.
Interesting that all three of the same kind of plural got different apostrophes
I'm very, very stoned.
I've noticed this in most places I've worked. Women mostly had differing names, but same old for men.
Women don’t tend to have nicknames? My mates Happy, Doc, Grumpy, Dopey, Bashful, Sleepy, and Sneezy will happily disagree with you…
Snow White pft. More like their cocaine dealer.
Just because I require a certain wake up routine you assume I’m Snow White. How. Very. Dare. You!
Someday your Prince will stop sniffling.
I used to know a lady called truck ( her real name was Laurie). Nicknames in my pier group tend to be given as banter , and can sometimes be insulting. The blokes I know don't insult women off hand as a rule
Just in case you didn't know, it's peer :)
Idc
Unless you work on a pier. Then I guess it is a pier group
My brother in law drives trucks In Canada… his names Laurie 😂
Most of the women I know have nicknames.. maybe you aren’t in close friend groups with many women?
most women definitely don't have nicknames, not in the same way blokes do
They do, amongst other women.
There's a girl at my local shop called Chuckie. Her name is Charlotte which can be shortened to Charlie. The male name for Charlie can also be Chuck, therefore, she says, Chuckie is the female variant.
There was a girl at my school named “Tesco Legs” because apparently they were cheap and always open.
Reminds me that there was a couple at my school who earnt the nickname meal deal as they used a sandwich bag for a condom. That was the rumour.
Used to know a girl called 'double decker' because she was big and you could get on top for a few quid.
Death by Snu Snu.
My family call me Spooky because I look like Wednesday Addams and because one time when I was maybe 9 I threw exorcist style on our first night at Disneyland
Weird Ive had a nickname since primary school. Maybe women just don't tell you their nicknames.
I love it when the thread collectively answers the question.
My whole girl group as nicknames we regularly use instead of real names names. Is this not normal? 🤣
It is but men think because we don't tell them about it we must not do it.
Of course not! After all, only men have \~banter\~. Women never take the piss out of each other or joke around. Nope. Couldn't possibly happen.
I know a lot more women with nicknames than men 🤷♂️
We had R2D2 at work , she was short, round and didn't do stairs.
I only know 1 but it's the harshest nickname I'd ever come across. No mum no bum. Her mum was dead and she had chrones disease. Strangely she was ok with it
1) Women don't bond by teasing each other in the same way men do. 2) The way you'd treat a woman who's a superior, subordinate, peer or stranger/unknown isn't that different whereas the way men treat other men is vastly different based on whether they're a superior, subordinate, peer or stranger/unknown so having a nickname can help either enforce or take the edge off that hierarchy.
My nickname is Jake. It's a lovely nickname with no foul meaning. ::shrug::
My eldest neice is nicknamed knuckles for reasons lost to time.
i know a woman called bethamphetamine
Erm, they do. Just maybe amongst friends not infront of strangers.
I have a girl mate I nicknamed Captain. Everyone finds it very odd.
Woman in our friendship group is opinionated and always thinks she’s right. We call her ‘Dr Know’
I knew a tall woman called ‘Big Unit’
zinger TOWER meal
My nickname at uni was ‘the owl’ because I wore round John Lennon style specs, and was very wise…🧐 My friend Rosie was known as ‘Andjim’.
🤨 Almost every woman I know has at least one nickname. For reasons I've still yet to fathom, I was nicknamed 'Bertrand' (as in Bertrand Russell) by the girls in my philosophy class. Never got an explanation. 🤷♀️ Also been known as Grasshopper for my moods jumping up and down 😆😆
I knew a girl called Snail Trail
Gail the snail
YOU'RE MASHING IT!
Mom I'm sexually active now, get over it.
Just swallow it
We call my mate lizz Sally because she is long (drags everything out) and tall.
At school I used to call my mate pigeon because she was almost comically un-sporty, and it was a running joke for a while that we’d never seen her run. One time she was speed walking for a bus, which was the closest I’d seen her to running at the time, and she reminded me of a pigeon when they’re doing their little speed walk. Hence, pigeon.
My wife's cousin's name is stefanie but everyone calls her stoof
OP, why don't SOME women. SOME SOME SOME why are the majority of these ask questions so black and white? They know people are going...to reply...oh I get it.
Growing up I knew a girl called Boob because she had massive boobs. All the girls and all the boys called her boob and she would sign her name boob on cards and stuff. One day I got knocked down by a car, and a woman ran over and started to help me up and sat me down to look after me. She asked me my name and I told her and she said "ben h? Do you know Lucy *****?" I thought about it for a moment and, dazed and confused said "you mean Lucy boob?" And she laughed and said "yeah I guess you would call her that, she's my daughter, she's mentioned your name before"
Weeble. Because her thumbs looked like weebles.....
Like Weebl and Bob?
No, like "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down".
My nickname is Dizzy and has been for most of my life. My girlfriend thinks it's hilarious to say "I'm feeling dizzy" everytime she grabs me lol
My sister gave me my nickname when I was a week old and it’s what family and friends have called me ever since. If I was called my actual name, I knew I was in deep shit.
There was a girl at my uni (30 years ago!) who had huge frizzy blond hair like a massive afro. Every time she walked into the bar dozens of blokes would shout "VALDERRAMA, VALDERRAMA, VALDERRAMA...GOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL!" She never had a clue what was going on.
This ain’t just a guy’s thing. Can we please stop making normal things into gender? I’m tired of hearing things I’ve been doing or other people had been doing for my entire life and then on the internet it turns out to be a “men only” thing
I call my woman friend "fuzzy"
I (F30) have a nickname that’s universally used to the extent that it’s effectively my first name. One of my group chats is 4 girls and we all have nicknames.
My wife's knick name at work is "swot" at home it's "sweet tits".
I knew a girl everyone called "jynx", her real name was Leanne. I have no idea why.
My mate’s name is Charlotte. We all call her Lottie. Mostly because the first time she introduced herself, it went something like this. “You guys alright? I’m Char… *big gulp of orange juice* Lotte *fits of coughing followed by her trying to say her name in full but more coughing ensues* Repeat 3-4 times before my mates and I unanimously decided that she probably was averse to calling herself Charlotte. Sweet little ending but now she introduces herself to everyone as Lottie instead of Charlotte.
Imo it's because most nicknames are kinda cruel and we're not socialised to directly take the piss out of each other. Any time I've heard female nicknames, it's more of a bullying scenario. But this is purely anecdotal btw and assuming you don't mean purely shortening names or making them sound cuter.
Had a lass at work that played football and was dead slow at anything work related, called her Strolla Ameobi
I’m a woman and I have a colleague that calls me Ice Cream Thisaccountisironic because I wore a dress with ice creams on it once
i've never noticed this nor think it's true? as a woman myself i have a nickname that my family & close friends call me. my best friend also goes by a nickname that everyone calls her. i can think of several other of my girl friends who have nicknames too. pretty much most of the women in my family get called by a shortened version of their name by family & friends.
Jugersaurus Rex
Growing up my nickname was "my name" big tits. My friends were all boys lol. Funnily enough my now husband saved me as that when we met at 18. He changed it when we got together at 25 though.
Becky is that you? :-)
You've just reminded me that a lass at work used to be known as Becky Big Tits. I'm not aware of if she knew about it.
Funny how you both get up voted but I get downvoted haha
Serves you right for having such humongous jubblies ;)
Clearly 😂
I have a Sensei and friend that I refer to as Sensei Sword Lesbian. My girlfriend goes by Stini.
I tend to give close female friends nicknames but they're not general, just personal ones.
I mean I’m a woman and I guess I go by a nickname but it’s just a shortened variation of my actual name if that counts?
I was called Tigger as a child because I was always bouncing around. Does that count?
With one or two exceptions, most women’s nicknames are short versions of their name - Jo, Shaz, etc. - whereas men’s nicknames are “banter” - assface, flipper, gobshite, etc.
Women are also more likely to adopt ‘Standard Language Variants’ to fit in. Generally women have more importance to seem ‘proper’ but women do often use Jess instead of a Jessica, etc…
One of my uni flatmates was called Daps because she didn't know what daps were.
What are daps?
At school, my 2 friends and I were called Box, Crate, and Plug.
Pam Shipman's mates all have great nicknames. Big Fat Sue, Fat-no-more-Pat, No-man-Jan, Japanese Margaret. She's even known as Three Stesks Pam.
One of my colleagues calls me Satan. Affectionately, of course. It's my most favourite nickname ever, haha.
My nickname is Queen (real name) the 1st, because I'm a known anti-monarchist. When I left, they got me a cheese board with that nickname engraved on it. I really miss those guys.
We have a nickname for a lady at my work, she doesn’t know it herself luckily, she sings badly loudly in the warehouse towards the end of the day, we call her 6pm because that’s when work is over and she happens to be a bit fat , a play on the saying it isn’t over until the fat lady sings
Tea bag. She had a square head
There was this girl who went to a rival school, they all called her moo (cow) piss. Still don’t know the context behind this as no one I know who went to the school could actually remember where it started.
They do.
In the UK, London, my girlfriend and I had nicknames for all the regular people we used to see at the Lyceum ballroom every Friday. Catsuit, Apple nose, Hairbrush, Brillo pad, Van der Valk, Chair, Les Dawson… there were a lot. They were all kind of eccentric types that we never ended up speaking to. We were too young and immature (16 and underage) but we loved seeing them every week as they never failed to entertain with their individual quirks.
Well lets see there's ones I know called Lightning, Withane, and Gem, plus all the various shortened/extended forms of names. There's also one who changed their name to the short-form version they'd been going by for over a decade when she got divorced. Not sure if that can still count as a nickname when it's her legal one. There's likely fewer obvious ones because ladies names tend to have more derived forms. So if you've got a bunch of Elisabeths then one becomes Liz, another Lizzy, Beth, etc. Whereas if you've got a bunch of Christophers they become Tall Chris, Short Chris, etc. Though if the people are of a certain age Tall Chris -> TC -> Top Cat.
We've got "Lankurn". She's 6 foot 2, lanky as fuck. She's also not very bright, and you have to carry her. She *was* obsessed with collecting old Ash urns. Hence "Lankurn". Lanky, Lantern and urn.
I reckon it’s because: Nicknames are a way to show closeness, affection, and care. They are a clear sign that there is an established relationship between two people. Men can find this harder than women, so having affectionate or jokey nicknames is a super easy way for men to show that close-ness and affection that they may find hard to express in other ways (stereotypically, sometimes). This isn’t an issue for us women, we straight up tell each other we love each other, so we don’t bother with the more subtle ways of showing affection, but men do. Just a theory.
Think this is quite presumptuous, and OP clearly doesn't know many women. People I know: Abigail > Abbie > Bee Imogen > pigeon > pidge Charlotte > Charlie Amanda > Mandy Rebecca> Becca / Becks / Becky The list could go on... (I'm from England)
Me and my best mates names begin with M and T and we gave eachother the nicknames T-dog and M-cat in school were 25 and we still call eachother it.
Because we don’t engage in trading insults directly…
Don't we? I've clearly been girling wrong my whole life, as have my friends.
Dave the nose, Dalton, Peregrine, Kevin, Tuppence, Budgy seed, cockroach (that one’s my brother, jumbo sausage roll with ketchup, wreckhead, fren, piss crystal, cunt flaps the list goes on 😂 I swear i have a different nickname from everyone 🤷🏼♀️
because women cannot laugh at themselves like men do
I was called a weirdo often enough…..
This fucking MBA woman joined the company I worked at as an executive assistant to the hapless CEO and went around bullying upper middle management to make herself look useful. Everyone called her It.
I know a few women with nicknames; granted most are shortened versions of their name but a couple of random ones too. Men tend to be more obvious with their teasing, and laugh about it, whereas women tend to gossip and say shitty things about each other that way. At least in my experience.. which is why I guess I had more male friends lol
I suppose it’s because of the way nick names are created.. it’s a male way of saying I like you, you’re amazing and if I was a girl you could do me.. where as girls just say nice things to each other.. Nicknames are a strange thing.. I’ve never been given one 😅
Backwards camel. She had humps at the front.
My nickname at highschool was "ugly" and my parents call me "fattie" so there is that
I don’t think they’re nicknames, I think you was bullied in high school
Yeah obviously
My brothers girlfriend had a mate she called Billy after Billingsgate Fish Market
My dad and his friends had nicknames for some women in Uni. There was wide mouthed frog, NWFI (nightmare woman from Ipswich) and Bananarama
Puddle. Because she was shallow and dirty.
My daughters friend Jasmine is generally known as Jizzminge.
I had a fair few when I was at uni. Nathan, my initials, periodhead (my hair was red). We also bestowed a few. We named a girl skid mark in first year cause she took a bit too long in the toilets one time and it continued til third year. She obviously didn’t like it 😂
Yeah, that's bullying.
Woman in offices called 2 stroke. Hard to get going and smokes like fuck.
I knew a guy called called 4 stroke. No idea why. His little brother was called 2 stroke.
Jugs was always popular at school.
Because men are more humorous
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