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in reply to a message by Kalon
My family has a nickname thing. None of them are even related to our names.
For as long as I can remember, my parents have called me Buckethead, generally shortened to Bucket (or Bucketina, or Buckaroo). When my sister was born, she went through a range of nicknames, and the ones which stuck best were Noodlehead and Nuggethead (usually just Noodle and Nugget). When she got a bit older, we started calling her Doomfish instead. A year or two ago, this was shortened to Doof and then, somehow, became Snoof, which is her current most used nickname - it’s also often Snoof Dog, Snoobert, or Snoo. By analogy, I’ve also become Boof or Boo! My parents sometimes call each other “Bagso” as some kind of endearment, and I’ve never heard them use any other kind of pet name for each other. When she was growing up, my mum’s older sister was called Horse, her older brother was Ray (his name is James “Jimmy”) and she was Cart!
As for actual ones, the only real-life example I can think of is a girl six or seven years younger than me who went by “Tiggy”, presumably short for Antigone, which definitely isn’t unheard of but which I always found kind of ridiculous and pretentious at the same time!
"Do you not find it happens very often, that you are as gay as Garrick at dinner and then by supper-time you wonder why God made the world?"
For as long as I can remember, my parents have called me Buckethead, generally shortened to Bucket (or Bucketina, or Buckaroo). When my sister was born, she went through a range of nicknames, and the ones which stuck best were Noodlehead and Nuggethead (usually just Noodle and Nugget). When she got a bit older, we started calling her Doomfish instead. A year or two ago, this was shortened to Doof and then, somehow, became Snoof, which is her current most used nickname - it’s also often Snoof Dog, Snoobert, or Snoo. By analogy, I’ve also become Boof or Boo! My parents sometimes call each other “Bagso” as some kind of endearment, and I’ve never heard them use any other kind of pet name for each other. When she was growing up, my mum’s older sister was called Horse, her older brother was Ray (his name is James “Jimmy”) and she was Cart!
As for actual ones, the only real-life example I can think of is a girl six or seven years younger than me who went by “Tiggy”, presumably short for Antigone, which definitely isn’t unheard of but which I always found kind of ridiculous and pretentious at the same time!
"Do you not find it happens very often, that you are as gay as Garrick at dinner and then by supper-time you wonder why God made the world?"
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