Did you ever get saddled with an embarrassing nickname? By family, friends or anyone else? What was it and how did you earn it?
My nanny as a child a wonderful and jovial stereotypical large, elderly African American woman named Annie called me Bo Weevil from birth, so i was called "Bo" until my mother died 9 years ago. Mom was the last of the family to call me that. The name died with her.
Hey Bo...love it
One of my exes called me "Rache" but that wasn't embarrassing.
As a child, my nickname was "Monkey" because I loved climbing trees. I stuck a book in the back waistband of my shorts and nimbly climb a tree. Hopelessly skinny, waistbands were always loose. I'd settle into the crotch of a tree and read.
Below me, kids ran around fighting, arguing and getting into trouble. It was fun watching the melee while safely hidden above them.
Sticks.
When I was 16 I fell asleep completely drunk in my best friends tree. It was in the middle of a huge rager and I felt it was necessary to get naked, climb, doze off in, and the subsequently fall out of said tree, impaling myself several times with little pine needles and branches on my unexpected and uncoordinated descent.
Hahaha. That's awesome.
I was always "Tommy" as a kid, until I decided to change to "Tom" at around 19 or so. But the worst one was "Goldilocks", which is what they called me at the first job I had in a factory.
they called me mindy for a while coz I had a fringe
No embarrassing nickname but a "pisses me off diminutive".
While some people call me Sil (I love it) other had the bad taste of addressing me as "Silvita". I ignored them.
I too hate diminutives. Or sometimes the opposite, with an "on" tagged on.
Not really embarassing, but I had an aunt that called me Pibby Greeks from the time I was a baby. Not the foggiest idea why....
A friend from college still calls me a name he gave me so many years ago. For a short period of time I was a professional dancer so I got the name "Go-go.
Jillybean. I have no clue how I got stuck with that name. It was my sister's ex who called me that.
My maiden name is Bird. Most everyone called me Baby Bird. My name is Barbara and when very young I introduced myself as Blah Blah Bird so my sister called me Blah Blah. In elementary school they called me Bird turd. Only scarred me a little. When in Grad school in Cairo they called me "Asfoura"= Bird out by the Giza pyramids.
Now I'm "Colton's Mom. Lol.
As a kid Bugaboo- I liked ladybugs
As a teen Trouble- Obvious
In high school, I once washed all of my athletic practice clothes in the same load in hot water. Pretty much everything came out pink, so for awhile my nickname was Pinky. My last name easily gives rise to the nickname Creampuff. Being nicknamed creampuff in an all-boys high school wasn't really so bad, because it gave me an opportunity to loudly proclaim "I am the rough tough creampuff and I don't take no guff when I strut my stuff."
Well, keep in mind it WAS high school after all.
When I was born, my Uncle Raymond gave me the nickname "Spanky" because I resembled the Lil' Rascals character. I don't mind that at all, but recently someone in my life has tried to tag me with the nickname "Porkchop". I do not like it at all, but refuse to let anyone outside my family call me "Spanky". Same rule applys to people who call me "Art" instead of "Arthur". I don't like it.
When I was 14 at summer camp, there were five of us girls in the bunk who were close. One of them loved The Three Musketeers and decided we would all be named after all of them -- she was D'Artagnan, the next three were obviously Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. I was the last one, so what name did they give me? Glucose. I grudgingly took it on, but I wasn't happy with it.
Mighty Whitey. It was reform school, different time and space.
Actually a sign of respect but I never liked it.
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. When I moved to Texas mid 1970's guys where I worked called me Farrah ( Fawcett ) because of my hair......I just took it as a compliment.
I don't think it is embarrassing, but my nickname is 'Bears.' It has been for as long as I can remember. It's a play on my given name of Barry. Which I DO dislike.
Alfie
I have no idea how I earned that nickname. In 7th grade on weekends I would play neighborhood football in a field across the street. I was the yougest playing with juniors and seniors. Then one day on the field when I was playing defense and he was offense, the oldest senior named Rod started singing "What's it all about, Alfie?" Still to this day I haven't a clue what he was talking about.