Interesting Nicknames

Trog

Inspired by the thread about knacker names.

Anyone have any interesting nicknames? Is there a story behind them?

My friend is called grubes, cos he admitted to one of the lads he has a grey pube (he's only 20/21).

One of the best ones I can think of is from school, some of the lads were getting in trouble for calling a guy jew, so they changed it to wej, and it stuck for 6+ years, classic.

I know a few guys who call their mate crazy legs cos he was actually born with no legs. Harsh, but hilarious.

My brother's friends call him bob. This is nothing like his real name. Lots of them don't know his reak name. No one has a clue why they call him Bob.

I have loads more I can't think of right now, but what are yours?

AckwelFoley

Pizza face was the name of a guy in college.

Poor guy had awful acne.

Turned me off pizza for a decade

Turd Ferguson

My nickname is "Leave My Child Alone". It's amazing how total strangers all seem to call me that.

My name is URL

My nickname was/is Tots.

One day when I was 12-13 and off school sick. My mates called for me and my mam told them to come into my room. I was watching Tot's TV at the time and haven't heard the end of it since.

Most people that know me now, know me as Tots =( And I have to explain it to people about 3 times per week too

Trog

snyper wrote: »

Pizza face was the name of a guy in college.

Poor guy had awful acne.

Turned me off pizza for a decade

Classic!

That reminds me of another one from school- one of the lads had loads of freckles that were kind of red-brown. We called him coco pops.

There were loads of harsh ones in my school. Like "two friends". Harsh out of it.
Also, A guy was very ugly and his name was gary: Garygoyle. He did look a lot like a gargoyle.

OpenYourEyes

We would have gotten in trouble if we called a guy in school "tubby" , so we started to call him "Toby"! The whole school was calling him it within a few weeks, and very few people at the time knew his real name!

banquo

I met a guy called 'vaseline', but never wanted to think about what he did / was caught doing that earned him that nickname.

CreepingDeath

One of my sisters knew of a guy in Ballybrack called "hoover".
He was a teenager caught in a compromising position by his family with the hoover. :eek: Think his brother or sister found him and the story could not be silenced for any amount of bribery at the time.

He became a social landmark... his siblings became "hoovers brother" or "hoovers sister".

Trog

Just thought of another one. There's a guy in college called ciaran and he's very annoying. He's a story beater- when you tell a story, (eg. I was locked last night cos I drank gin), he'll ALWAYS tell a story to beat yours, mostly lies (eg. I drank 2 litres of gin straight). Because of this no one can stand talking to him for more than six minutes. Se he's six minute ciaran. This then evolved to smack, cos if you pronounce the achronym of his name it's s-mc. Smack. Perfect.

connundrum

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

We would have gotten in trouble if we called a guy in school "tubby" , so we started to call him "Toby"! The whole school was calling him it within a few weeks, and very few people at the time knew his real name!

We'd the same situation. When no one was around yer man was called Tubs. When school employees were around he was called Tobes.

I was called cripple due to a car accident which had me on crutches for a couple of months.