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Queenie

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erinscupcake · 13/01/2015 19:20

I heard this one the other day and quite liked it. What is it short for other than Elizabeth? I read somewhere it can be short for Gwendolyn.

Also do you know any called Queenie, as in that's their real name?

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ZingTheGreat · 14/01/2015 00:00

Queenie is not short for Elizabeth. it's a name derived from the Old English word "cwen" which means woman and it is a name on it's on right

I don't like it, sorry

WhiteHairReally · 13/01/2015 23:52

Another Granny here called Queenie, but her real name was Frances. She was the bossy oldest cousin and gained it as a nickname as a little girl. In later life she was known simply as 'Q'. That's what's on her gravestone. I wish I'd given my DD 'Q' as a middle name, in her honour. I just wasn't cool enough.

trottietrue · 13/01/2015 23:34

I love the name Queenie. It was our cats name till my mum renamed her Poppy. I may use it one day as a middle name.

wyamc · 13/01/2015 20:21

You just can't. It reminds me of Lou Beale in Eastenders but I don't know why.

timmyinatizzy · 13/01/2015 20:18

I work with a lovely Queenie. She is in her 50's, think she was born in a Commonwealth country.

ZeroFunDame · 13/01/2015 20:14
  • So a nickname for a Victoria or Alexandra or Elizabeth, etc ...
ZeroFunDame · 13/01/2015 20:12

I think it's a magnificent name that would be very difficult to carry off these days.

Always understood it was a nickname for anyone named after whoever was currently the Queen.(Obviously usually married to the monarch.)

The only one I've known switched to her real "royal" name in early adulthood.

sleepdodger · 13/01/2015 20:10

I love the name
Dh less so
So I tested it... Starbucks style, what's your name? Queenie... Uh ok....
Weirdly went off it then
However middle name maybe!!

sleepdodger · 13/01/2015 20:10

I love the name
Dh less so
So I tested it... Starbucks style, what's your name? Queenie... Uh ok....
Weirdly went off it then
However middle name maybe!!

YonicSleighdriver · 13/01/2015 20:10

No one else posted "50 ft queenie" yet?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jKLiU7Hq93w

AstonVilla83 · 13/01/2015 20:06

My nans name is Queenie Evelyn and she is a wonderful, strong woman, love the name

AstonVilla83 · 13/01/2015 20:05

My nans name is Queenie Evelyn and she is a wonderful, strong woman, love the name

HesterShaw · 13/01/2015 20:02

Makes me think of Lord Flashheart chatting up Elizabeth I in Blackadder II. Or Bert Baxter's wife and this poem by the genius who is Adrian Mole:

White face, red cheeks.
Eyes like crocus buds.
Hands deft and sure, yet worked to gnarled rots.
A practical comfortable body, dressed in young colours.
Feet twisted, but planted firmly on the ground.
A sure soft voice, with a crackly sudden laugh.
Her body is lifeless and cold,
But the memory of her is joyful and as warm as a rockpool in August.

:o

not a child's name.

AuditAngel · 13/01/2015 19:54

My GM was Florence NN Queenie.

I wouldn't use it. She wasn't a great mum, she was a worse GM.

FairyPenguin · 13/01/2015 19:53

I really don't like this. And I am quite liking the revival of a lot of traditional names.

RedandCurlyforNow · 13/01/2015 19:53

that is a dreadful name.

Definitely a difficult to revive name. Although I find Beryl quite pretty. Queenie is a bichon frisse imo

Interrobang · 13/01/2015 19:51

I love it. Friend of a friend just named their baby this - real actual name. Named after an old relative, who I believe was also an official Queenie.

HolyTerror · 13/01/2015 19:47

Gives me an uncomfortable double exposure of QD Leavis and Bert Baxter's girlfriend in the Adrian Mole books. I would class it the 'difficult to revive' names like Mavis, Doris and Beryl, which remain more 'fusty great aunt' than granny-chic hipster toddler.

MrsDeVere · 13/01/2015 19:47

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redhatnoknickers · 13/01/2015 19:46

I know a Margaret known as Queenie, lovely woman, lovely name!

YoullLikeItNotaLot · 13/01/2015 19:44

Elderly ex-prostitute. Yes, really. Friend of the family.

Pantone363 · 13/01/2015 19:44

I love it, quite popular in Liverpool I think.

My scouse nanny always calls me queenie

QueenieBaxter · 13/01/2015 19:43

Love it Smile

CLJ52 · 13/01/2015 19:37

My granny referred to scampi as "queenies" - she was from the North East of Scotland.

Just googled it and got a lot of pictures of scallops.....

DoItTooJulia · 13/01/2015 19:32

I love it. I suspect I'll be in the minority.