Nickname origins.

[hellzabeth]

So I'm bored and I finished writing FT early and then Nena was rambling to me about Russia and told me that "nenaglyadnaya" means "adorable" or "beautiful" in Russian.

She apparently didn't see the whole "Nenaglyadnaya", but I nearly cuted myself to death.

So then I doodled something cute.


Ain't she a squish? Hands off she's mine B|

So yeah, now instead of Nena's nickname coming from Veneno (Latin for Poison) -> Neno -> Nena, it is now short for "adorable".

Also I did me since I was bored.


Hi guys. So my nickname derives from my last name, Dove, which a friend once said was basically an albino pigeon and the name Pidge stuck.

Since I'm a curious bugger, what's the origins of your nicknames, flist?

Comments

[coco-venus.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, my nickname comes from my name...

Strange that.

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Then what about the whole "coco_venus" thing? That has nothing to do with "Sarah"... that I can fathom.

[coco-venus.livejournal.com]

Yes, but no'one calls me that. I don't even know why that's my username. It's the first thing that came into my head.

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Well that's anticlimactic.

[coco-venus.livejournal.com]

I know. I'm sorry.

If it makes you feel better, in secondary school people used to call me Boris, because I was so obviously a gay rugby player.

I don't even know.

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

So you should be.

Boris?

Epic.

[starrose]

My nickname at school was Jim Jam, StarRose is Star = a dedication to my obsession with all things sci-fi, Rose = a dedication to my very first anime love which was..err...James in Pokemon lol

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

A simple origin. And let me guess, you were 17 when you made the username?

[starrose]

Yep lol Only because StarRose was already taken though.

[meg-inatree.livejournal.com]

meg_inatree= You have no idea how many trees I used to climb up as a kid. Seriously, I was like a fucking monkey.

Nutmeg=... I actually don't know, a friend gave it to me and I decided to use it as my online name for certain things orz

:|

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Monkey child! Aw, an adorable mental image.

Nutmeg sounds like what Hades calls Megara in Hercules. o___o Awesome.

[meg-inatree.livejournal.com]

Ffff. I was a rather bitchy monkey, always pushing my bestie out of the tree |D But she threw blocks at me and drew dicks on all the pictures of Ken in my Barbie colouring book :|

Fff I suddenly love this nickname even more |D Megara, one of the first characters to make me like my name orz

[millesettecento.livejournal.com]

Lala = My brother couldn't pronounce my first name, a brand of milk and the yellow teletubbie xD
Moomin = I loved the Moomins, my parents kind of stuck with that.
Eli = Short for my middle name.

As for the username, Mille settencento = Italian for 1700, I needed a username orz

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwww Moomin is an absolutely adorable name. I think I might have to call you Moomin from now on, I'm sorry.

Ah, you told me that before I think. /searches brain

[millesettecento.livejournal.com]

Go ahead XD

[taudrey.livejournal.com]

Mine's a not-do-clever play on my actual name and also points to the origins of the word "tawdry".

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Your name's Audrey then? I have only met one other person in my whole life with that name, and she was a 5 year old.

So I'll probably end up picturing you as her by accident now. D'aww.

[lovelylurker.livejournal.com]

I... I don't have any in real life nicknames.

My internet nickname was something I made up for people to call me because I don't like my real name. It stuck (mostly) so... oh well.

Lovelylurker is something I totally made on the fly because I lurker on livejournal and I... just added on the first word. XD Only people from LJ call me Lurker.

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

People take you seriously then?

Eia is a cool name, but for some reason I'm stuck calling you Lurker now. o__o;;

[candesceres.livejournal.com]

My RL nickname = Toni. From my first name, which pretty much makes me a nyotalia version of Spain, unwittingly orz.

It was given to me by a boy I had a huge crush on in highschool. We were lulzing about "Ali G" and then he turned around and went "ahaha if you were gangsta your name would be Toni D!" ...And I HATED it because it was a "boy's name". |D And because my grandad had the same nickname (only he was Tony). Eventually though I just grew used to it because my friends just kept calling me that and now it sort of makes me dere orz.

"Cande" though...Cande is just because CandeSCERES is a mouthful and people are apparently lazy. |D Plus it sounds like "Candy", so. <3

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

D'awwww gangsta Cande what a cute image. I think everyone's answers are making me dere over them but still, picturing you in a backwards baseball cap and oversized clothes with bling...

What does the whole word "Candesceres" mean? If it means anything at all. (Oh good, I'm glad you're meant to say it "Candy" because that's what I've been doing. >>)

[meg-inatree.livejournal.com]

/Pictures fem!Spain as a gangsta.

/brbdying

[hirra-chan.livejournal.com]

The Hirra on my nick has a weird history. When I was younger my grandma told me that I had a body shape similar to a jug or pitcher, which in Spanish it is called "jarra". The thing is that my grandma always pronounced it as "jirra", for some weird reason, so she started call me that way and it stuck. When I made this account, I changed the J for an H, because in English the H is pronounced the same way the J is pronounced in Spanish (to avoid confusion with others, you know).

As for real life, oh boy.

Don't laugh, please, because my real name is América. Exactly.

Friends usually call me Ami (not pronounced like Amy), because they say it's easier to remember. Family calls me Meme of Jirra (thanks, grandma). And if people feel evil, since a very famous (and crappy) football team here in Mexico is called "The Eagles of the America", people refer to me with names of another teams, such as "Necaxa", "Chivas" or "Toluca".

[alianorethecat.livejournal.com]

It's kind of hard to come up with a nickname for Elise. It's already such a short name. The only nickname I really have IRL is Nurse Joy... 'cause my hair's been red for as long as the person who calls me that has known me. And because I'm a vet tech.

And my username... I was looking at my family tree one day and say Eleanor. Apparently I thought changing the spelling would look cool or something I started using it everywhere. And I like cats.