Nicknames

[Elswick Cotterpin]

'Head in a bucket'... talked as if his head was in one.
'Nine-bale-high', say it fast, one word, ninebalehigh; 'cos he fell off a trailer during hay baling.

 

[steve50]

true story, an old pal of mine grew up with the nickname sh1t face, when I inquired as to why, he told me as a youngster he had a weekend job on a farm, he was "mucking out" one day and they were throwing fork loads of shoot about, some of it hit him in the face and stuck, so the nickname was born and has stayed with him ever since.

 

[rich p]

I have a friend whose surname is Lamb, and is known to all as Legga.

 

[Bollo]

Thanks to the manly and rugged cleft in my chin, I've had to live with "bum chin" at various times in my life.

 

[roadrash]

going through school with red hair, if you can think of a nickname , then i had it , including from the teachers, i remember my mother hearing one of the teachers at primary school calling me "red" she never referred to me as red again when mum had finished with her.

 

[bruce1530]

I once worked with a guy known as "Guinness".

He was stout, with a big head.

 

[jonny jeez]

I have lots of mates called Steve, they each have a nickname to define which steve we are actually talking about.

One of them has three fingers on one hand, so is obviously "piano playing steve" which became PPS...and now peeps for short.

 

[Pale Rider]

Teachers would be a nickname sub-genre for some of us.

I don't know if children still do it, but we had nicknames which were not necessarily nasty for a few our teachers.

Mr Hale was known as Binny after the actress.

The head teacher, whose name I forget, was called Bock or Bocky - no idea why.

The games master Smith was called Snotty because he had an all but permanent sniffle.

 

[Hardrock93]

There seems to be a tradition in the police force, at least locally, to confer nick names, sometimes a tad cruelly. A thoroughly pleasant and jolly, though slightly dumpy and overweight officer, was known throughout his career as 'Beads', because he was neck-less.

 

[MarkF]

At school we had a teacher nicknamed Bumhead on account of a scar running down the middle of her forehead.

Ooh, we had a teacher who's short hair met at the back, with a vertical parting. She was known as c**thead.

 

[User169]

The boy who lived across the road was always known as ""Boggy" after an incident involving prunes on a scout camp.

 

[Donger]

At school I sometimes sat behind a lad we called "Cube" because of the shape of the back of his head ..... He didn't do himself any favours by having an unusually short (for the 1970s) square cut every time he went to the barber's. Our woodwork teacher was universally known as "Harry the Plank". I once got given detention when another teacher asked us which teacher had given us permission to be indoors one wet lunchtime, and I answered honestly, but without knowing the guy's real name.

 

[classic33]

"The Nutty Professor" or "The Mad Sciencist" at school.

Don't know why, but I was only allowed to do Physics after the third year. Teachers felt it was safer.

"Mad Jack" a teacher with a deadly aim, never missed.

 

[Oldbloke]

Reekus, a T/D teacher with dreadful halitosis.
Swan, a teacher with a very short neck
Tramp, a geography teacher with stubble who looked like he'd slept in a hedge

 

[glasgowcyclist]

There's the infamous nickname 'Heid First' for the guy whose name was R. Slater.