To find people who give their daughters the nickname "Moo" annoying?

[Pushmeinthepool]

I know it's only a small thing but it's so irritating; whatever happened to a bit of originality? I know about 5 people that call their DD's "Moo" as a nickname.

Some of our close friends have a DD called Molly, and they call her Molly-Moo constantly. We have had to endure the tale again and again about how up until the age of 5 "Molly-Moo" thought her real middle name was Moo. Oh the hilarity of it!

I post on another forum and there is a woman on there who's DD also has a name beginning with M, and she calls her Moo, too. Every post is about "Moo" and "Moo did this" rather than her proper name.

There are also some other mums at the school that call their DD's this. What makes me laugh is they all think they're being so clever and original, when they're not. Find a more original nickname!

YABU

Mine tend to be called various food-stuffs. Depending on my mood they could be a bean or a sausage (ie comedy food) for a good mood or plum or lemon (ie grumpy food) for a bad mood. Everyone I know tends to have food nick-names actually.

And BTW my MN name has nothing to do with my name starting with a 'M' (because it doesn't).

Beb, this is exactly the type of thing I'm referring to. It does grate and get annoying when it's everytime they mention said child.

At home, yes fine, people can call children what the fuck they like. But in public, when talking about them to people, calling them a stupid nickname over and over again, is just ridiculous. For example when talking to Molly's mum about reading books at school, it's all "Oh Molly-Moo has this book" and "Molly-Moo hasn't done her spellings this weekend because we were out".

But Beb, Ruby Roo is how scooby doo says sccoby doo .
Does she say it with the scooby howl d'you think?

fucking hell, it wasn't THAT bad

ooooh I have an Mname-moo child. Didn't realise it was so widespread - it just came naturally tagged onto her M-name. thats how these things happen I guess.

But I don't call her Moo alone, but even if I did YABU to be even remotely bothered by this.

Ahh so because people you know and clearly have no respect for use a common affectionate nickname for their dd that means all people who use it are 'annoying'.

I have a pickle and a Moo both epithets suit them I had no idea originality was a criterium for affectionate nicknames [flays self] - must try harder - I would not refer to her to others as 'Moo' as a rule but might accidently I suppose - but generally I give no thought whatsoever to this trivial matter and after I post this I will return to that policy.

When I was out shopping the other day I referred to my daughter as 'kitten' (so it's not always food actually .

A woman turned round and said to me 'ah what an unusual name! How lovely!'.

saffy - how very dare you! i thought my DS was the one and only Bear! You mean it's not original?

Those of you that affectionately add "Moo" onto your DD's name, do you use it when talking about your child, for example at parents evening to her teacher?

Moo (or mou) is Greek for 'my' but they would place it after instead of before.
So 'Milly mou' would be 'my Milly' so maybe they're all secret Greek speakers?
Doesn't annoy me at all what other people call their children!

have to admit we call our daughter (whos name begins with S) madam moo moo sometimes as when shes in a bad mood she can be a little cow lol other than that as she is quite short for her age and slim we also call her scrap, but we alos call her by her actual name as well, its not like i call her C###Face or anything so i do thin yabu :)

We have an Eggy Po and Pippo. They bear absoutely no resemblance to their real names what so ever!

What did you say Greensleeves?

'Moo' is infinitely better than 'Princess' which is what a lot of parents (dads mainly) seem to call little girls round here.

it rhymed with "poo flosser"

ds1 is bee, as in bumble bee because his name begins with 'B'. ds2 is wee 'O' because he is wee and his name begins with 'O'. but no, his teacher does not know this name for him.

DC 1 gets Dodies (corruption of first name)
DC 2 gets chickpea
DC3 gets Fofers (again corruption of first name) and various versions of this, along with Chubbers!

My Dd is officially called Margaret. 99% of the time she is known as Daisy. She gets Daisy-moo, Daisy-mouse, Daisy-meg, Meglet, Mouslet. So what?

at poo flosser. dreadful images being conjured up now

my dad used to insist on calling me 'doll' as a kid. I hate being called doll by anyone. It's horrible.

what about if princess is the kid's name?

I have started to call my ds 'My young padawan' but that is less an affectionate name more a reaction to reading 'clone wars' annuals to him every night for the last 2 months!

Anyone using a family pet name to refer to their child while talking to a teacher is clearly deranged but that has nothing to do with op which only has a problem with 'moo'!

My parents called me Moo for about 10 years until I begged them to stop - so embarrasing!

oh yes, my two both also get 'wee birdie' alot. i am from northern ireland and bird is an affectionate term not like calling women 'birds'

Bigmouth, I was the OP and I was the one that also said about referring to their child as that when talking to a teacher. So I have a problem with both!

I often call my eldest Freaky Dee......have no idea why but it's an a nice way

this thread is fascintaing. I didn't know so many people use nicknames...and I don't quite get it.

call me boring but what's wrong with their 'normal' names?