July 14, 2007

GENERIC AND DESCRIPTIVE NICKNAMES

- Shorty - someone who is short

- Big T. - (a) Big Thomas

- You're a Very Bad Girl - girl who is on time-out; emasculating nickname for a boy who is on time-out

- G. - geezer/elderly person

- Tiff - Tiffany; Stace - Stacy; Feeb - Phoebe; Trot - Leonid Trotsky

- Rad-Rab - rabbi

- S'loon - Stella Luna

- Mister Man - precocious boy

- Abe Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln

- Curly Mo - person with curly hair (extra-generic if person's name is Mo)

- Author - someone who writes

2 comments:

Amrita said...

Michael Jackson - someone who renovates old ruins.

Anjel said...

Here's an Aussie one - 'Bluey': Someone with red hair.
Also - 'Shorty': Someone tall.