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Plum?

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missyfafa · 21/04/2010 18:42

Is Plum a proper name or just a nickname for something? Anyone know. Is it cute or too much?

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twosofar · 23/04/2010 07:39

Plum Sykes is really Victoria.

My parents used to refer to all Victorias as "Victoria Plum" when I was a child (which was a fairly long time ago

serinBrightside · 22/04/2010 22:59

DH said "What? they are going to call it plump?"

debaronz · 22/04/2010 22:08

Sorry, I don't like it.

NotanOtter · 22/04/2010 21:59

adorable
you have to be posh

warthog · 22/04/2010 19:31

terrible terrible terrible. bloody awful.

am i being clear enough?

whatwasthatagain · 22/04/2010 19:30

Isn't there a Plum Sykes? I actually quite like it, but would probably never be brave enough to use it. Oh go for it, others clearly have. Read of a girl named Honeysuckle in the paper yesterday which again is fab, but brave

HarderToKidnap · 22/04/2010 19:22

I know a girl called Plummie. That is actually her given name on her birth certificate. She comes from a family of people with mad names though.

Lovethesea · 22/04/2010 12:41

Thought of Plum baby food ... then testicles ... then 'a right plum'.

Just can't imagine the kind of person who could carry it off. Fine if it's a family nn but on the BC it would be horribly cutey and makes me think of plump too.

oldandmiserable · 22/04/2010 12:32

Plum is an insult. 'He's a right Plum'. Or a slang name for a testicle.

SardineJam · 22/04/2010 11:07

3 girls were registered with Plum as a firstname, here in the UK, last year

MonkeyMargot · 21/04/2010 20:52

It's our DD's middle name. Chickened out as a first name as thought it might not suit should she become a banker/lawyer in future. But I do love it :-)

pitterpatterfeet · 21/04/2010 20:34

Very funny!

MrsJohnDeere · 21/04/2010 20:28

I know one who actually has that as her real name, not a nn.
Not my cup of tea

APassionateWoman · 21/04/2010 20:25

PMSL

Please don't.

schroeder · 21/04/2010 20:24

It's a shortened form of Pelham; as in Pelham Grenville Wodehouse he was (apparently) referred by his friends and family as Plum.
I'm not sure it's due for a comeback though.

notquitenormal · 21/04/2010 20:17

Actually, I think it's a lovely name.

For a rabbit

Undercovamutha · 21/04/2010 20:12

Oh please say you are joking?

Don't do it - your poor child will have the worst school years ever!

BTW I regularly use it as a slightly less offensive way of calling someone an idiot - as in 'what a plum!' or 'you plum'.

Just. Don't. Do. It.

skidoodly · 21/04/2010 20:04

How about Bollock? That's cute.

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CuppaTeaJanice · 21/04/2010 19:40

It reminds me of Terry Christian on The Word in the early 1990s talking about 'feeling his plums'.

I really don't want to be thinking about Terry Christian's testicles 20 years on...

Northernlurker · 21/04/2010 19:38

Fine as a nickname, awful as a real name. There are some things which just don't work - like Tulip, Daffodil, Sunset and Ocean

padraig · 21/04/2010 19:35

Awful name.

SillyTillyBilly · 21/04/2010 19:33

Cute nickname - much like poppet, sweet pea, pumpkin, petal, honey etc but I thik it would be better to choose a stronger name for the birth certificate and use it as an endearing nn.

LetThereBeRock · 21/04/2010 19:28

It's awful.