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Queenie

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RetroMum1 · 16/01/2011 20:06

Any thoughts?

I wrote on an earlier thread that I was thinking of using it for DD2 and thought I'd open up it's own thread!

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beijingaling · 17/01/2011 20:42

I went to school with a queenie from hong kong (I'm 25 so this wasn't years and years ago). she changed her name when she went to Uni.

Terrible name. I even think it's rubbish as a nn.

upahill · 17/01/2011 20:35

It belongs in a Martina Cole novel.

Please don't.

MyLifeIsChaotic · 17/01/2011 20:31

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mangoandlime · 17/01/2011 20:31

My first thought was Adrian Mole

Queenie wanted her pot of rouge just before she died. It was sad!

toddlerama · 17/01/2011 20:27

I know a horse called Queenie. Usually referred to as "Our lickle Queenie".

TheSecondComing · 17/01/2011 20:27

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BluddyMoFo · 17/01/2011 20:23

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PorkChopSter · 17/01/2011 20:22

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

I know No is a Sentence and all that, but this deserves reiterating.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

seeker · 17/01/2011 20:19

No. It is a nickname for Victoria.

And pretty grim even then.

Firawla · 17/01/2011 20:17

i used to love this name when i was about 3 lol
it is kind of cute in a way but i do think it would get some weird reactions if you called your dd this

CurlyhairedAssassin · 17/01/2011 15:49

I knew someone who had a cat called Queenie, so that's what I think of when I hear it, and the Adrian Mole character.

And some older scousers will call any woman "Queen" in conversation.

Just can't imagine calling a child Queenie....

GwendolineMaryLacey · 17/01/2011 15:45

Bert Baxter's lady friend in Adrian Mole. Forever associated with false teeth and too much rouge, sorry.

ConnorTraceptive · 17/01/2011 15:42

awful

mum295 · 17/01/2011 15:40

No, sorry. It's my Gran's nn as she has three forenames, all names of queens, but even so I don't think it's right for a little girl.

FoxyRevenger · 17/01/2011 11:40

3nearly4 hahaha.....

LetThereBeRock · 17/01/2011 08:49

Absolutely not. It's a terrible name.

ValiumSilverTongue · 17/01/2011 00:11

Just thinking

Queen as a name I could deal with. But making it Queen ie is what makes me need a ginger cracker.

ValiumSilverTongue · 17/01/2011 00:11

Terrible. Are you going to buy one of those porcelain comemorative plates with will and kate for £70? I wonder who would buy one?!

the same person who'd call their child Queenie??

NannyState · 16/01/2011 21:27

It's a real old East End name.

I know a couple of ancient old Queenies, and one in her 30s.

Absolutely love it.

onimolap · 16/01/2011 21:18

I see it as very, very old fashioned, but in a nice, quaint way, IYSWIM. I knew one who was about the same age as my granny.

It also reminds me of "Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball" ( does anyone still play that?)

3nearly4 · 16/01/2011 20:56

Sounds like a nickname for ones lady garden.

OddBodd · 16/01/2011 20:19

Oh like the Enid Blyton character? Wasn't she the girl with a stone heart?? Not a fan myself.

QBEE · 16/01/2011 20:19

LOVE LOVE LOVE Grin

ChippingInSmellyCheeseFreak · 16/01/2011 20:18

Sorry, but it's horrible. I'm not going to describe what it conjures up in my mind as it would get me in trouble on here - just NO.

As for tummytickler - I really hope you said that in jest Shock

purplepidjin · 16/01/2011 20:16

It's the nickname of someone named after the current Queen - Elizabeth atm, previously Victoria and I guess Kate/Catherine in the future...