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Posy - nice or twee?

78 replies

Lady84 · 06/06/2015 23:06

Watched a film today where the baby was called Posy and thought it was lovely. Do you think it's an acceptable name for someone older than age 5 or is it just my crazy hormones?

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 09/06/2015 20:09

Too twee for me.

SunnyBaudelaire · 09/06/2015 11:46

sweet nickname for a toddler but otherwise unbearably twee.
As for 'Posy-Blossom' for god's sake do those parents not realise that that child will have to go out into the adult world one day?

SevenEleven · 09/06/2015 11:43

Twee. Cute as a nn for a baby/toddler but I not for anyone over 5 as a real name. Give her the choice. Use it as a nn.

LavenderRain · 09/06/2015 11:43

I know a child called Posy-Blossom

JUST NO!

reuset · 09/06/2015 11:42

Who doesn't like the Ballet Shoes book. I think most are nostalgic about the NS books. Doesn't make Posy a good name, in real life for a grown adult, 70 years hence.

TravellingHopefully12 · 09/06/2015 11:37

I like it - like others on this thread I think of Noel Streatfield and the ballet shoes books x

mrstweefromtweesville · 09/06/2015 10:47

To be 'ultra twee' do I need a wig?

emwithme · 08/06/2015 23:08

Apparently the flump was Posie (with an "ie" not a "y").

I know this because I bought a new car at the weekend and she is definitely called Posie Flump and I spelled it "Posy" to my best friend and was rapidly corrected.

5YearsTime · 08/06/2015 21:09

I love it but I was a huge ballet shoes fan!

reuset · 08/06/2015 21:03

There's the poetic meaning of posy too but even that's twee and sentimental to boot.

Reminds me of the vaguely similar Bunchy (Joyce Lankester Brisley books), though hers was a nick name, for her real, and very lovely, names were Violet Rosemary May

villainousbroodmare · 08/06/2015 20:43

Actually, Squoosh has nailed it. At least Daisy and Poppy are visualisable flowers. Posy just means "small childish bunch".

squoosh · 08/06/2015 14:30

It's ultra twee. And indecisive, as though someone wanted a flower name but couldn't pick one.

I too think of Posy Flump.

wesH · 08/06/2015 10:25

Twee

Methe · 08/06/2015 07:38

Would you want to be called Posy? Seriously?

It's bloody awful.

TheNewStatesman · 08/06/2015 02:42

It's dreadful as a given name, sorry. What if she grows up to be tall and stocky and sport-mad?

It's OK as a childhood nickname for something else, though.

BackInTheRealWorld · 07/06/2015 23:44

Posy Twee is starting to sound like a good name...

mrstweefromtweesville · 07/06/2015 23:38

Posy Twee. Sounds as if we could be related.

tilbatilba · 07/06/2015 23:32

I love it too

Sophronia · 07/06/2015 23:22

Good as a nn for Josephine, but as a full name on its own it is very twee.

BikeRunSki · 07/06/2015 22:59

Twee, but a sweet NN fir Josephine, which is one of my favourite names.

UmmErrWhateves · 07/06/2015 22:56

I like it but it's probably better as a NN. I don't see it as more twee than a lot of other popular girls names.

Pixie, lottie, daisy are all similar.

reuset · 07/06/2015 22:46

That was a fictional baby, no? Twee. Use a proper name, Posy as your nick name.

thegreylady · 07/06/2015 21:52

Well there is always Pauline if you want a baby Fossil :) Then she could be Polly for short xx

mrspremise · 07/06/2015 19:32

hideous. sorry.

jeee · 07/06/2015 18:06

Another Ballet Shoes fan - 'Her name is Posy. Unfortunate, but true'.

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