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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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Silverfoxette · 31/08/2025 00:19

Multiple people in our village have told me they call dh the man who walks the dog. It’s quite funny how many people have told me this

Fayaway · 31/08/2025 00:18

Brumchum · 30/08/2025 23:14

Sulking Sandra and Kinky Ken.

I had Sewing Sue and Leathery Ken 😂 I’m convinced this will be outing.

Ginburee · 31/08/2025 00:17

Cat feeders.
Ben 10
Sex register man (sadly put us through hell)
Gossip Granny
Car puncher
Big dog boys
Mad Mary (not Mary but way too outing)
Lovely Churchies
Gosh, we seem to have a few don't we. .

Willowback · 31/08/2025 00:17

We have in our cul de sac
The Adams family - their house has a turret and big gates
Crabbit features
The dead woman (she died not long after we moved in and the family haven't sold the house after 2 years)
The campers
The young folk

GuiltyPleasure · 31/08/2025 00:14

Our next door neighbours are “the footballers”.
They’re lovely guys house-sharing that happen to play for a premier league team. The number of delivery drivers that ask us if X lives next door is unreal. They’re the most quiet, lovely neighbours you’d ever get (they also throw an excellent end of season party)

PennySweeet · 31/08/2025 00:13

Willy One Tooth

Drunk woman

Skinny Prick (This was because he was drunk one night and kept shouting 'skinny prick' out of his bedroom window until 2am).

Maybeitsmable · 31/08/2025 00:09

The Poopers
Santa & Jane
The white witch
The chainsmoker

JoanThursday · 31/08/2025 00:05

Most of ours we know by name. Others are known as:

Canoe man
Foghorn Leghorn
Gardening van man
That Bloody Woman

lovemycbf · 31/08/2025 00:04

We have the flanders,Bruce Springsteen ,the fat controller and the meatballs

Delphigirl · 31/08/2025 00:03

We have a very fat man married to a woman who is very vocal about having had a tummy tuck. So they are known as Tummy and Friar Tuck.

FrodoBiggins · 31/08/2025 00:02

notyetpregnant · 30/08/2025 23:13

a few years ago a drunk driver hit a few cars on my road very late at night, and in the middle of all the drama I looked out the window to see my neighbour (who had been in bed when the incident happened) was out on the street offering out cans of cider to bystanders and then a little later with a glass of gin.

My partner and I jokingly started referring to him as gin and tonic after this and this has stuck so we now only ever refer to him as gin.

Legend

dunkery · 31/08/2025 00:01

Blue cars
The Twitchers - always watching everyone.
Mrs Fussy - House reeks of bleach.
Sooty cat's mum and dad
Dippy mum - almost car reg
Roy or Ray alternating - can never remember which name

vipersnest1 · 31/08/2025 00:01

I had ‘shrieky’ - she has now fully evolved into ‘the screamer’. Her father speaks another language which I cannot place, but he is the ‘shouty man’ when he loses his temper - usually with him bawling and her screaming back. It’s all very disfunctional.

Sub2Mumma · 31/08/2025 00:01

NDN to the right - their names
across the way to the left - godly house as they attend every mass religiously
directly opposite - football house as their son is always being ferried to various trainings / games
across the way to the right - poodle house as they’ve a GIANT poodle 🐩 who escapes constantly

FrodoBiggins · 30/08/2025 23:59

The dad in the family next door is so so nice (we hear his little son cheer when he comes home from work and the dad says stuff like "YESSS I'M SO GLAD I'M BACK!" so we call him "the nicest man in the world" shortened to "niceman" (pronounced nicemun) and "niceman's son/wife" etc. We know all their names. We were having a BBQ with them once night and DH - drunk - told him this lol. He was touched/ confused.

The family opposite have a very annoying child who kicks a ball against a very loud wall for hours a day (and is generally shouty and rude) and we call him Billyballs and his parents "the dickheads" or "Mr and Mrs Dickhead".

Sisters two houses away - we learned both their names but we met Emily first so they're Emily and Emily's sister. Call her that so much I'm now not 100% on her actual name

Cartonhazy · 30/08/2025 23:59

Your Best Mate/My Best Mate, because he used to make a beeline for my husband whenever he saw him, and would chat away like they were besties.

Green Door (self explanatory)

Potato (because she looks like a potato) and Potato's Mum

DRD (goes by full name on Facebook so we used to refer to them by their full name and eventually shortened it)

Also had nicknames for customers when working in retail many moons ago:
The T-shirt eater
The shoe sniffer
Pervy man
30/30

Corgi2023 · 30/08/2025 23:58

We call our immediate neighbours by name. Other ones in the street are:
Drug dealer bitch,
Nosey Louise,
Scottish tennis couple,
Italian family, (we are not entirely sure what nationality they are).
Spanish family,
Model aircraft man

BebbanburgIsMine · 30/08/2025 23:57

Not where I live now, but at my last house we had an Isa.

If you’re Scottish you’ll get it

She was insanely nosy and gossiped about everything.

Miffylou · 30/08/2025 23:57

Not a nickname, but my extremely talkative neighbour is called Roger. If he spots DH or me in the garden he witters on and on and it’s hard to escape for ages.

This is known in our house as being Rogered.

LikeThatNotThat · 30/08/2025 23:56

We have Smoky Joe next door cos he is always smoking in his garden (sometimes weed) and we can smell it

Next door to Smoky Joe are the Party Folk - when they first moved in they had a late/loud housewarming party, we were walking home from somewhere and one of the neighbours was in her front garden and said to us "oh dear, I see we've got some party folk moved in" and it kinda stuck 😁 The Party Folk have never made a peep since 😂

The other side of us are a lovely Australian family who we mostly call by their names but occasionally they are "The Aussies" (obvs)

There's also Creepy House but we don't know who lives there

Friendlygingercat · 30/08/2025 23:55

Mrs Gungha Din (iconic Indian matriarch)

Mrs Manager (told me how she had a very important job as an area manger)

Batwoman - has a t shirt with the batman symbol on it.

My neighbours possible think I am a vampire as I seldom go out and mostly after dusk so I dont encounter any of them.

Noshadelamp · 30/08/2025 23:53

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?

We also have a penguin, I can't believe someone else uses it!

We have "the rev", footballer's wife, and the name of a politician someone reminds us of.

I can't imagine what names people have for us.
I always worry people will assume I'm an alcoholic as I'm often still in pajamas all day due to chronic illness, but when I'm dressed with hair and makeup done I don't look like there's anything wrong with me.

I hope it's a name linked to our beautiful dog who died last year. He was 16 and walked at least once a day every day especially by DH so I bet someone in the street calls him something dog related.

ReadingSoManyThreads · 30/08/2025 23:52

Abusive Cunt - fortunately he died last year. Our street is a much calmer place now.

Serenity45 · 30/08/2025 23:52

Shitbox Steve, Angry Dad, John and Yoko, and 2 lots by their actual names. Oooh what might we be called good question! I'd like to think "lovely dog couple" but more realistically "middle aged chubbers"

Endofyear · 30/08/2025 23:47

Builder who lives around the corner - we called him Fred West because unfortunately he looks like Fred West! Noisy annoying neighbours at the end of our garden we call The Munsters because they're ugly and rude!