Quotes About Nicknames

Jeff was called "dawg," "bro," "dude," and "Holmes," and

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

That's why I have Jericho, Jared, and Zarek. (Acheron) Psycho-ass? You're bringing Psycho-ass back? (Nick) That's Mister Psycho-ass to you, punk. (Zarek)

People always ask how Tina (Rinaldi) and I ended up with the nicknames Pebbles and Bam-Bam, and, I tell them that during our college years the nicknames were perfect and we have Danny (D'Angelo) to thank for them.

Nobody called her Moggy except for Mother, either. Nobody ever called me Kittycat except my family, and people who were looking for a fight.

I make up different names for my cat all the time - Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he's really, "Hey you, cat."

But the Mohaves, like their allies the Quechans, loved bawdy sobriquets referring to—or flatly advertising—genitalia. Quechan names for men at the time, for example, included "Big Cock," "Cock-with-a-Blue-Head," and "Good Fucker." One Mohave woman was nicknamed "Charcoal Testicle," indicating she liked sex so much that she burned men's testicles. 22

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

The best way to befriend your problems is to thank Me for them. This simple act opens your mind to the possibility of benefits flowing from your difficulties. You can even give persistent problems nicknames, helping you to approach them with familiarity rather than with dread. The next step is to introduce them to Me, enabling Me to embrace them in My loving Presence. I will not necessarily remove your problems, but My wisdom is sufficient to bring good out of every one of them.

I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

Annabeth: Hey, Seaweed Brain. Percy: Will you stop calling me that? Annabeth: You know you love it.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Tabitha is classical spinster—similar to Tituba, the Caribbean servant at Salem, Massachusetts, who allegedly taught the spells and charms that led Sarah Good and nineteen others to be burned or hanged for witchcraft. And "Tabitha" would be long associated with single women—tabbies, tabby cats, would become common nineteenth-century single nicknames—and with witches.

He and his friends weren't heavily into the dope scene, but he had hung out at his buddy Weed's house—clue for parents: If your kid is nicknamed "Weed," it probably has little to do with legitimate gardening—when his folks were out of town. Mike

I like 'Stifle Tower,' I like 'Gobzilla.' There's a lot of nicknames that are pretty cool.

The Professor doesn't have a problem being called Dick? If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich . . . not Dick. Hell, I'd even settle for being called Chard.

In my schooldays, I was Titch, Skinny and Freckles. These days, I answer to Karloff, Fatty or even Twiggy from my more sarcastic friends. If they called me Ann I should wonder what I had done to offend them.

Do you have nicknames for any of your other brothers? The youngster squinted his dark gray eyes in concentration. Well, Tristan is Dare, and sometimes he's Tris; and Bradshaw is Shaw; and sometimes we call Andrew, Drew, but he doesn't like that very much. Why not? He says it's a girls' name, and then Shaw calls him Drusilla.

Seems we can never just be brother and sister like in other families. Our whole lives, people have felt an urge to make up special names for what we are. at Lafayette Christian, we were the 'Oreo twins' or 'Kimberly and Arnold' after the characters on Diff'rent Strokes. And while those nicknames bugged us, they were certainly preferable to what they call us at Harrison

I get called Larry more than I get called Joe.

The nicknames - people say they couldn't understand it, but look, I have really enjoyed my time away from 3AW, and I have discovered one thing - that I am more than just a yelling fanatical football follower who makes up nicknames.

As a kid, I went by Tray. In college, they called me Hitch. And Trash. And Park. All the usuals.

I call people by their initials when they're good buddies, and that's a kinda street thing, too - 'Here comes JF,' or, 'Here comes KC.' It's fun; it's intimate.

Steel Arm Johnny, Mary Meathouse, Gold Tooth Gussie, Bird Leg Nora, Titanic, Coke-Eyed Laura, Scratch, Bull Frog Sonny, Snaggle Mouf Mary, Stack O. Dollars, Charlie Bow Wow, Good Lord the Lifter, and many more.