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To everyone who said Daffy is okay: Would you call your son Goofy as a nickname?
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Yes. Daffy, Goofy, Silly, Goofball, all are descriptors of being silly and fun. Although they can be used meanly, they don't necessarily have to be. I wouldn't call my child Stupid as a nickname, but there are no good, fun connotations of Stupid, unlike the other nicknames I listed.
This message was edited 7/13/2016, 2:55 PM
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Possibly, yes.
I think sometimes nicknames just stick.
My cousin married her fiancé last weekend. His name is David but everyone calls him Tug, because the doctor had to "tug" him out at birth (possible TMI).
Even the priest referred to him as Tug during the ceremony.
In the Philippines sometimes people have legit nick"names" like Bebot, Ding or Wing-Wing that are used even professionally. Their real name might be Conchita, Virgilio or Andreana... and you would never know!
(Bebot means the same as "hot chick" and was used for a guy).
For what it is worth, I used to call a kid I met in this orphanage in Russia "Goofy". It stuck and everyone started calling him Goofy. Though, in fairness, the Disney character was not so popular there that the reference was obvious.
I think sometimes nicknames just stick.
My cousin married her fiancé last weekend. His name is David but everyone calls him Tug, because the doctor had to "tug" him out at birth (possible TMI).
Even the priest referred to him as Tug during the ceremony.
In the Philippines sometimes people have legit nick"names" like Bebot, Ding or Wing-Wing that are used even professionally. Their real name might be Conchita, Virgilio or Andreana... and you would never know!
(Bebot means the same as "hot chick" and was used for a guy).
For what it is worth, I used to call a kid I met in this orphanage in Russia "Goofy". It stuck and everyone started calling him Goofy. Though, in fairness, the Disney character was not so popular there that the reference was obvious.
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I suspect not, but that probably also has something to do with the fact that there's no obvious full name Goofy might be short for. Daffy may mean silly or crazy, but there's no denying that it at least sounds like a nn for Daphne, or might even be the way a little kid would mispronounce Daphne.
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I wouldn't spread it around to common use, but I do call John "Goofy" on the regular (as a name not a descriptor.
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yes, there's a difference ...
Between nns that are just used privately at home and nns that are used by friends and teachers.
I have a friend whose son is named Joshua, but when he was learning to crawl, he got the nn Monkey, because he would get up on his hands and feet and move kind of like a monkey. This would have been fine for just a private, at-home or occasional nn, but if he'd gone to school answering to Monkey, well ... if I was his teacher I wouldn't be very happy, and it would be hard to explain to him that Monkey wasn't an appropriate name for teachers to be calling him.
Between nns that are just used privately at home and nns that are used by friends and teachers.
I have a friend whose son is named Joshua, but when he was learning to crawl, he got the nn Monkey, because he would get up on his hands and feet and move kind of like a monkey. This would have been fine for just a private, at-home or occasional nn, but if he'd gone to school answering to Monkey, well ... if I was his teacher I wouldn't be very happy, and it would be hard to explain to him that Monkey wasn't an appropriate name for teachers to be calling him.
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I knew a kid called Bug. His real name was Joshua but he had a hearing problem as an toddler and he called himself Bug because of the way he heard his name. It stuck and he's in highschool and everyone calls him Bug.
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I took a class at uni with a guy who insisted on being called Shrimp. I refused to call him Shrimp. I wasn't friends with him and a nickname like that has a certain level of intimacy, at least in my opinion, and I didn't feel comfortable using it when I barely knew him.
He had an ordinary name like David or Daniel and I don't know why he didn't want us to use it.
He had an ordinary name like David or Daniel and I don't know why he didn't want us to use it.
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I use to know a man nicknamed Squid. These seafood names! I don't know what his actual name was, I didn't know him that well.
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I actually never realized that daffy is a word meaning silly. I've never heard it in that context, only as the duck's name (which I guess I should have picked up on, but still).
So to answer your question: I'd call kids Daffy and Goofy on occasion, for fun, but not as a permanent nickname.
So to answer your question: I'd call kids Daffy and Goofy on occasion, for fun, but not as a permanent nickname.
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I think at the age at which I might use Daffy, I'd use Goofy too.
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Yeah if the nickname came up naturally for whatever reason. If this hypothetical son didn't like it though, I wouldn't call him that.
This message was edited 7/12/2016, 11:29 PM
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