Nicknames

pkiesch

I'm sure we've all been called amazons and so forth, but what nicknames do you like or not like?

My sister calls me Tess, short for giantess haha but I love it.

hwgroff1

I hate when my family calls me BigFoot....... they constantly make fun of the fact that I have huge feet...and I am the tallest woman in the family.

shantelleclarke

A friend in highschool once nicknamed me Stretch. She still calls me that to this day and that was over 10 years ago.

I hate Amazon! I also hate it when people ask if I play basketball...

Tonnina

I was told most of my elementary years "You should totally play basketball in high school!" Little did they know I wasn't into sports...

I've been called Bigfoot and I'm okay with that.

When I was in middle school I experienced my first bullies and they called me The Beast on account of me being the tallest and heaviest girl in school... I hate that HATE IT!!! I'm a loving person, rarely hate things or people, and I still to this day HATE those bullies that called me that in middle school. When I see them working dead end jobs it makes me happy, but the funnest thing is I now have glasses and look a little different than I looked in middle school so they never recognize me now!!! I can hate them right in front of them and they never know...

marz31

Yeah, I always got the "act your age, not your shoesize" when I was 9 and 10 because they were the same. size 8 in 3rd grade. really tho, sasquatch or bigfoot were in there.....

AngelikaLumiere

I was 5'9.5" in junior high. I had so many nicknames I stopped counting at 40, I remember getting called Amazon which I didn't mind, I thought it was funny.:laugh: I got called Mother when someone saw me in the grocery store with my mother and I was taller than she was. That was hurtful, because of the way it was said. I guess because I usually laughed at what people called me none of the nicknames stuck and I don't remember most of them.

Krushchev

I'm only 5ft9 (This group makes me feel tiny! ), but addicted to platform stilettos (and short skirts) so I get called Legs on a regular basis. I can't say I mind too much, lol. Definitely better than my nickname when I was heavy, which was white rhino... I still am not sure why, ha.

kelliwiatrek

I was called "North" in high school. Been called Amazon and hate that.


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dbanks80

in HS i was called Olive Oyle I hated it because i am 5'9" and then 120 lbs with no curves!!!! I was a straight stick back then!

lik_11

jolly green giant. Been called this by numerous people over the years... I try to be jolly, and I always wear green... so it's fitting! (It's amusing how many people think they're being original with this nickname, though)

CVALGAL

I remember being called "daddy long legs" in elementary school, and I'm a GIRL! I also have been asked, "how's the weather up there?" hmphh!

Steph4454

In High School a friend of mine called me Shorty, and I loved it, lol! (6ft)

tillmanlady

I got called Jumanji in the 8th grade LOL I totally forgot about it until a few weeks ago actually and when I thought about it I cracked up..... I hated it tho laughed it off so I didn't let it really bother me and now find it pretty damn funny...

bt_13_21

I also hate it when people ask if I play basketball...

My dad taught me to say "No, do you play miniature golf?" hahaha

Let's see... amazon, sasquatch and... big bird? IDK, I guess b/c I'm blond (kind of yellow, like big bird from Sesame St?).

pkiesch

I also hate it when people ask if I play basketball...

My dad taught me to say "No, do you play miniature golf?" hahaha

Let's see... amazon, sasquatch and... big bird? IDK, I guess b/c I'm blond (kind of yellow, like big bird from Sesame St?).

I'm gonna have to start using that mini golf line, TOO FUNNY!!

jamie31

Throughout junior high i was called ogre behind my back ( kids are so cruel ). Now its names such as jolly green giant and stretch.

lorac321

I've been mostly call Amazon Woman or in grade school Carol the Barrel (fat & tall) ... But I prefer my new nicknames: My husband calls me Bug and my youngest granddaughter calls me Nana (she is the only one that does)

cherdan

Oh, god. I was Jolly Green Giant on and off. Then, in junior high, once I started getting fat, this obnoxious boy singled me out and christened me 'Cherdan Grand Canyon.' (My last name is Grant-Johnson... too easy, right?)
Then, as the fatness progressed, it apparently superceded my height, and I just became known as "monsta."

kkauz42

My dad always called me Big Foot...totally didn't bother me! In high school I was always called "the Kauz" or "Kauz" (part of my last name). I think it was a sports thing! I have inherited it from my dad now! All his softball friends that I grew up around call me Kauz, doesn't bother me at all!

Riley4ever

I'm just over 5ft 9" and at the age of 15 had a fixed brace on my teeth so I regularly got called 'lurch' (from the adams family) and 'jaws' (from the james bond films)....quite traumatic for an impressionable teenager but I now have really nice straight teeth which have always drawn nice compliments so I guess eventually I had the last laugh.

Amptitude

My mom calls me sasquach, lol. -__- She knows I hate it, but still regularly calls me it. It's so annoying.

Also, since i'm overweight and tall and have pretty big boobs, my friends in highschool used to call me Boobree. (My name is aubree haha)
I moved, and still to this day they call me boobree. Not sure how I feel about that one.

amflautist

My mom calls me sasquach, lol. -__- She knows I hate it, but still regularly calls me it. It's so annoying.

Also, since i'm overweight and tall and have pretty big boobs, my friends in highschool used to call me Boobree. (My name is aubree haha)
I moved, and still to this day they call me boobree. Not sure how I feel about that one.

Amptitude, you say you are not sure how you feel about that nickname, but I'm pretty sure I know how you feel - and I would feel the same. If you don't mind a little encouragement from a 70-yr-old, I say that your best defense is a good offense. Be successful in your weight loss. Work hard on your dreams and be successful in your chosen profession. Do this and you will leave all those old high school friends in the dust.

jennarandhayes

I've been called most of the above names and I don't particularly like any of them. Jolly Green Giant is what everyone called me in HS and I hated that the most. To be honest I think that any nicknames that have to do with ones appearance are insensitive, people will always try to find your weak spot so I never let anyone know that the names bothered me. When I was 15 my family went on a holiday to Anguilla in the Carribean where most of the islanders are of average height. It was a small island and the islanders all knew each other and they didn't get many tourists at the time. One of the bartenders started calling us "The Massive Family" (dad is 6'3", brother is 6'4", mom is 5'9", and I'm 6'0"), pretty soon everyone on the island were calling us that!

katevicks

giraffe was a stand out in primary school for me! also got "vickery ****ery dock the mouse ran up the clock "because my sir names vickery.. and i also have enormous boobs so i got mammary from a few of my high school boyfriends smart *kitten* mates!

whos the jolly green giant? im aussie so maybe its a USA thing??

1DayMarathonRnner

In college I was called STAB (as was every girl who was smart, tall, athletic, brunette). That one I didn't mind as much.

I was called Jolly Green Giant all of grade school and high school. I have been 6ft since 6th grade.

I am in a slightly different situation with my family. I am the shortest....so I am called shorty. My brothers are 6'8 and 6'5. My mom is 6'1 and my dad is 6'4. So I really am the shortest in the family.

1DayMarathonRnner

whos the jolly green giant? im aussie so maybe its a USA thing??

http://dshnotebook.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/jolly_green_giant.jpg


The Jolly Green Giant is the mascot of the Green Giant veggie company. He is/was in commercials etc.

kristen6022

A friend just told me last night I had "Sasquatch" hands because they are so big. No bueno, short friend. Thanks for the compliment.

TadaGanIarracht

Jolly Green Giant was my least favoritte and I hated everyone thinking I was a teacher when I went to a new school.

samakain

Junior High was the worst 3 years of my life. Not only was I taller than most of the other kids but I was also overweight. Kids called me 4x4 (four by four) and Big Little (big person, little head?). I think I cried every day after school.
The summer before I started high school (grade 10), I went on a crash diet and lost 40lbs. When I started high school in the Fall I got so many compliments but I was still really insecure and hid under baggy clothes. I spent most of high school alternating between barely eating and over exercising to maintain and trying to lose more. So sad

longbird

I also hate it when people ask if I play basketball...

My dad taught me to say "No, do you play miniature golf?" hahaha

Genius! I'm nicking that ;-)

A cockney acquaintance referred to me as 'that long bird' a few times (long=tall, bird=girl). I loved it and have used it as my self-imposed nickname ever since.

I grew up in Milton Keynes where my height was not that unusual, so the bullies found other things to call me. Now though I live in Glasgow, where I am an Amazon and the wee men gaze up in wonder...it's hilarious :-)