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To have nicknames for my neighbours and ask what yours are for yours?

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Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircar · 30/08/2025 22:53

Apparently most people in the UK have nicknames for their neighbours that they use within their household.

Mine are -
Their names - J & M (next door)
Next door not J & M (I actually know their names but still call them this)
Barky dog people
Penguin people
Policeman's family
Old boy

What are yours, and perhaps more interestingly... what do you think your neighbours call you?

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Fionasapples · 30/08/2025 23:46

Mr & Mrs Busybody
Mrs Brushup (she's always brushing her path)
The walking man
The miserable sods
The policeman

Wigtopia · 30/08/2025 23:45

we know the names of most people on our street so try will be called by their actual names but in addition we have:
Posh house
shouty family
fake Pat
Tomato Man
Mr Yappy’s owners
Cherry booze family
new neighbours (not that new now!)
Courgette John (there is another John too so have to differentiate!)

Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircar · 30/08/2025 23:43

My mum had a neighbour across the road, he was there the whole time I was growing up and for over a decade after I left home. She used to call him "the slug" and the way she pronounced it with such disgust and contempt in her Geordie accent was hilarious.

He really was slug like. He kind of reminded me of the slug-like "I don't want to see any paperwork on this" monster from monsters Inc. He was slow and slimy and really unpleasant and collected classic cars which he parked up and down the entire street.

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Mirabai · 30/08/2025 23:43

Captain Flashheart
The Mad Hacker
Bloody Sally
Catman
Brian (his name is not Brian)

SharpBrickMaker · 30/08/2025 23:42

Ann's bitch
Fanny balls number 1
fanny balls number 2
Bitchface

OnetwoThree123456 · 30/08/2025 23:42

Some on our street are:
Fatty Mcgee/ Bitchface (not a nice lady!)

The goths (because they always dress in black)
Benefit dodgers (walks his dog and pretends to pick the sh@@ up but this isn’t the main reason )
The pikies

awful really
However…
The ones we do like are by their actual names.

Amblealongside · 30/08/2025 23:41

We use the actual names of all our neighbours except one set, who go by various names depending on what mood we're in:
The Oracle
Them next door
Him next door
Her next door
The Wessie
Neighbourhood watch

I dread to think what they call us 😂

novocaine4thesoul · 30/08/2025 23:39

I've got
"man bun"
"rupert trousers" and "the parking witch"
plus a few others that I know by name, but just for specificity we say John, from up the street.

MindfulM · 30/08/2025 23:38

The Funny Family
Keeping Up Appearances
Gormo
The Chavs
The Scratters
Wanker with all the cars
The Hobbits
The Tarts
The Fat Family
Just a few of our neighbours over the years.

UpUpAwayz · 30/08/2025 23:38

At our old house we had Pink Skirt Lady because she wore the same pink skirt EVERY DAY. Eventually became shortened to PSL.

We also had Dog Walking John because he was called John and religiously walked his dog at the exact same time each day.

We have an Irish friend who came over once and was asking “what’s your man at number 8 up to” and it stuck so pretty much everyone else gets called “your man” or “your one” if they’re a woman, followed by their house number. Eg. I saw your one from number 12 earlier, I think she must have a dog now. Or “your man and your one from next door are getting divorced”

BlueRidgeMountain · 30/08/2025 23:37

we have:
Leslie Ash (obvious reasons)
KeithKen - I keep forgetting which one is actually his name
Shameless
Juice - dead ringer for Juice off Sons of Anarchy
Evel Knievel
Leatherface
caravan creep
house of a million kids

IveLostMyUsername · 30/08/2025 23:33

Shirley next door is proper next door. The ones the other side are the noisy ones (we're not sure how many of them actually live there, but loads in and out and they make a proper racket)
Previous other side was gobomatic because she never shut up and we could hear her wherever we were in the house. I've never seen anyone happier when the Bailiff arrived to evict her (my husband)

Nushi21 · 30/08/2025 23:33

Shamboosy or Shaba - neighbour

Puff daddy - he still looks and dresses like P-Diddy

Perv - for obvious reasons

Aroma man - used used to walk past our house a few times a day and his perfume used to linger forever

Apple man - he had an apple tree in his garden

Candle - the kid’s name is Camrul, but our num used to call him Candle and the name stuck. It’s been 15 years and we still call him candle.

Hoo - my mum and our (late) neighbour of 30 years would call each other in the back garden by making noises. One would say hooo, the other would hooo back like owls and then they would meet in the back garden. She died last year and mums not hooo’d since.

The curry’s - the man’s name is Kari, but we call his family the Curry’s.

wanttokickoffbutcant · 30/08/2025 23:33

I really like my next door neighbours and know their names but the ones next to them are:

Cat wanker
Mrs cat wanker

Guy upstairs is the Serial Killer

Moveoverdarlin · 30/08/2025 23:32

Not neighbours, but we do for parents on the school run.

AhBiscuits · 30/08/2025 23:32

Blaster man.
Weird Sam.

JohnnyRememberMe · 30/08/2025 23:32

My upstairs neighbour is friendly, helpful, and built like a shed.

He's the Honey Monster.

ScruffMuffin · 30/08/2025 23:32

Most of them are referred to by name, but we do have:

The Posh Toffs (bought a very fancy new build across the road, and have never deigned to speak to us)
The Mad Professor
The Special Christmas House Family
Chris the Carpenter

Linda next door is in danger of being nicknamed That Cowbag Linda, or Buddleia Linda.

There used to be an old lady who was universally known as Drunken Pat.

There's a very nice (but LOUD) woman who is a local councillor and does loads of good work. She also inserts herself into every single village event, usually brandishing a megaphone. Not sure why, because she has a big enough gob as it is. I call her the Town Crier.

They probably call me the Village Idiot! Or the Music Teacher. Or That Crazy Ginger Woman.

Makingpeace · 30/08/2025 23:31

Hordor, because the husband looks like Hordor from GOT.

We also have Shouty and That Horrible Man, because they are always shouting and screaming at each other and she always tells to him "you're a horrible, HORRIBLE man!"

Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircar · 30/08/2025 23:31

BeardofHagrid · 30/08/2025 23:25

Next Doors/J&M

Fatties/Scots

No Holly (it’s all they ever say to their dog)

Binfluencers

Peruvian Princess

Edited

Barky dog people are also our local binfluencers. We never call them this, they are always barky dog people

They seem to really want to be the binfluencers because they make sure their bins are out first by putting them out at 11am the day before they are due to be collected, even though they go out to walk barky dog many times after they out the bins out.

Drives me mad because the bins take up half the pavement and it's so selfish to block wheelchair user and buggies for that long unnecessarily... just to be the street's binfluencer 🙄

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StrawberryFizz27 · 30/08/2025 23:31

The happy's- which they are definitely not. Every time I see them, I sing Pharells "happy now".
Other side is The weirdos.

Aparecium · 30/08/2025 23:30

I grew up next door to the Crook and the Lobster. The Lobster used to wave her arms over her head, clenching and stretching her hands while she ranted at us. If a ball went over into her garden she would offer it back to us, then stab it with a garden tool before throwing it back. (We soon learned not to kick or throw in that direction! None of the other neighbours had any problems with us, and all other neighbours with children had no issues chucking balls back to each other.) The Crook was her husband. Every few years he would spending a few months travelling for work. According to him, that is. According to the Lobster he'd been in prison. Which was confirmed several times in the newspaper.

We don't have any nicknames for our current neighbours. We just use their names.

TheChosenTwo · 30/08/2025 23:30

The royals (Charles and Camilla 😂) behind us and the Gallagher’s (shameless) used to live opposite us, they had a sofa in their front garden for about a year! Started off during one World Cup season, the house opposite has their biggest garden in the front and one year they brought a telly out and had some friends to watch the football, to be fair it wasn’t wild and out of control or too mental but the sofa stayed there for a good 12
months! They moved a few years ago now!
Other than that we have some quirky neighbours up and down the street but we know them all by name so just name them if talking about them.

DryAndBalmy · 30/08/2025 23:29

We refer to them by their names except for a nice, older couple. We don’t know their names but they’re very pleasant/ friendly and they have a lovely dog called Sidney, so ‘Sidney’s parents’

SprayWhiteDung · 30/08/2025 23:29

We have an intensely irritating neighbour who thinks (has actually told us) that he owns the road and makes ridiculous demands and harassing threats. If he weren't elderly and also rather pathetic, we might actually be a bit scared of him.

We know his actual name, but it isn't an especially common one, so there's a faint chance that it could be outing; but we've adjusted it slightly to make a word meaning something approximating to 'buffoon'. Supposing his name were Stuart, we've amended it to 'Stu-pid'.