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Queenie

59 replies

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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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!!

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.

ZeroFunDame · 13/01/2015 20:14

So a nickname for a Victoria or Alexandra or Elizabeth, etc ...

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.

wyamc · 13/01/2015 20:21

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

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.

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.

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

TheNewStatesman · 14/01/2015 08:22

Makes me think of QE from Blackadder!

TheCowThatLaughs · 14/01/2015 08:28

Not nice at all

squoosh · 14/01/2015 10:43

I think it's bloody awful. A hatchet faced 19th century matriarch from the East End. She runs a pub called the Bull and Bollock where she rents rooms for tuppence an hour and hacks phlegm into a spitoon.

floatyflo · 14/01/2015 11:02

I know a 3 year old named Queenie.

I don't like it personally.

Casualty · 14/01/2015 11:59

I can imagine it maybe being cute on a toddler, but I can't imagine my 40 year old self stating my name down the phone to a stranger without a stifling an embarrassed laugh.

IsadoraQuagmire · 14/01/2015 12:48

I think it's LOVELY! It makes me think of my favorite character in "This Happy Breed" Queenie Gibbons.

HesterShaw · 14/01/2015 13:39

Sorry OP.

mammmamia · 14/01/2015 14:13

I like it but as a nick name for something else. A friend of mine is called Victoria and gets called Queenie as a nickname.

maggiethemagpie · 15/01/2015 18:54

I love the name queenie but probably more for a cat/drag queen than a real life baby who's going to turn into a real life adult. actually I think I will now name my cat queenie when I eventually get one.

PrimroseEverdeen · 15/01/2015 18:56

I think it's really cute!

MuddhaOfSuburbia · 15/01/2015 19:02

LOVE IT

...wasnt allowed tho