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[Opinions] Maudette
Came across this name on a character. What do you think of Maudette?
--"We are all horrible and wonderful and figuring it out." - Harris Wittels
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Just wanted to say I love the imagination and creativity in your comments!
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Was it in a Charlaine Harris book?I like it in a very kitsch kinda way...I'd probably think it was a little bit trashy irl, but for a character name it's cute. I'd imagine a diner waitress in the 1950s with big hair and big skirtsI really love Maude though
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I actually kind of like it - Maude meets Claudette, and I love both of those names.
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My first thought was: "if I ever have a mule, I will name her Maudette"
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It's overly frilly, rids Maud of its no-nonsense charm.
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Wouldn't at all be an option for me, sounds like Karl Lagerfeld's favorite: his Birman cat Choupette.
P.S.: I'm not a big fan of Maud/Maude either, because of our common local pronunciation, such as Mout, prefer Matilda or Mathilda.
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Horrible; a ghastly travesty, taking the tough, energetic medieval associations and the Tennysonian temptress ones and transforming them into ... I don't even know ... synthetic, drooping nylon frills?
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I think it's too frilly. Maud is perfectly lovely as is, Why needlessly add to it?
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I don't like it. I adore Maude, but trying ti dress it up in frills is just not seeing it for the ugly duckling it is. Its awkward to say.
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As if Maude wasn't ugly enough. Maudette is like a splatter of bird droppings on a ratty polyester plaid jacket. Ugly on top of ugly.
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It doesn't roll off the tongue very well. Looks as though someone combined Maud and Odette - two names that are fine on their own.
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I'd prefer Meave or Odessa. This one isn't worth reviving. Maude is cool. Dudette came to mind. ;-)
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