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To have nicknames for my neighbours and ask what yours are for yours?

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Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircar · 30/08/2025 22:53

Apparently most people in the UK have nicknames for their neighbours that they use within their household.

Mine are -
Their names - J & M (next door)
Next door not J & M (I actually know their names but still call them this)
Barky dog people
Penguin people
Policeman's family
Old boy

What are yours, and perhaps more interestingly... what do you think your neighbours call you?

OP posts:
Millytante · 31/08/2025 15:19

There’s a local bloke who passes on the main road on his rickety old pushbike who from the first time I saw him has been ‘Jarrow March Man’

In my giddy teens we’d had a lovely old couple next door, Mr and Mrs Hall.
We thought we were terrific comics by referring to them as Albert and Assembly.

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 15:33

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 14:56

Its pronounced lza 😆 🤣

Oh ok 😀

RobertaFirmino · 31/08/2025 15:53

We have:
Them on the corner
Wiggy
The Latvians
Muscles
Temu Rayner
Green Party lady

Frankieohfrankie · 31/08/2025 16:15

Halloween (lovely man, had a tree which pretty much blocked his windows in)

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 16:58

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 15:33

Oh ok 😀

You need to watch still game, its on Netflix.

KickHimInTheCrotch · 31/08/2025 17:02

Mr and Mrs Fussy
The Fat Controller
MAMIL
Cat family

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 17:07

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 16:58

You need to watch still game, its on Netflix.

I've seen still game. I love it. I'm half Scottish but I never lived there so I dont know the ins and outs. My Scottish dad was lovely and had a great sense of humour.

Vitriolinsanity · 31/08/2025 19:10

Allmarbleslost · 31/08/2025 11:05

Only for one of my neighbours. He goes by ATW (Adam The Wanker)

I have TTW first name Tim, next door to him are lovely
Next door are Shut up Ethel (their dog, but are actually very nice
Next door to them are Skip Diver Shrew and Two Volvos and a Camper

I suspect I have several NN’s

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 21:18

We have the fake blind man, he walks up the street with his white stick and brings a newspaper home. And batman, tall guy who wears a black mac but never has it buttoned up so its blowing in the wind behind him.

constantlylactating · 31/08/2025 21:32

So.

Bird Man and Bird Woman
Shiny Bonce
The Starer
Her with the Dog
Garden Bin Man

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 21:45

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 17:07

I've seen still game. I love it. I'm half Scottish but I never lived there so I dont know the ins and outs. My Scottish dad was lovely and had a great sense of humour.

Where in Scotland did your dad come from,if its ok to ask?

Notashamed13 · 31/08/2025 22:05

Notashamed13 · 31/08/2025 04:08

Next door by their names and then we have:

  1. The ones who mistreat their animals
  2. Bulldog
  3. Mr disabled
  4. The Oracle
  5. The cat lady
  6. Sideways Steve
  7. Costa man
  8. Tattoo lady

I think we will Definitely be known as they loud bastards.

Edited to add "The ones with about million kids" (how could I have forgotten them)

Edited

Sorry to return, this thread has made me laugh out loud today. My OH and I went off to Asda to do our weekly shop this morning and one of the above nicknamed neighbours walked around the corner.....my OH immediately pipes up "Bulldog".....I couldn't help but laugh and tell him about this thread! Edited to add that this lady doesn't own a bulldog but has the most amazing resting bitch face (hence bulldog chewing a wasp lol)

FunnyOrca · 31/08/2025 22:09

Gospel preacher
Number 1
The Family
The Hunger Games contestants
The Old lady
The Gardener (know her best and actually usually use her name nowadays)
Tango Man

32DuploBlocks · 31/08/2025 22:16

We have:

  • Millionaire
  • The Catholic Man
  • The new ones (lived there well over a year!)
  • Ozempic Jane
  • Shouty Man
  • The Mafia
  • The Miserable Bastards
  • Bag for Life (never seen without a shopping bag!)
  • The One with the Red Car
  • The One with the Red People Carrier
  • Scottish Man
Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 22:20

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 21:45

Where in Scotland did your dad come from,if its ok to ask?

Countryside around Glasgow but family going back to Hebrides and west Scotland (Argyll ) and also Orkney.

Notashamed13 · 31/08/2025 22:20

Ozempic Jane 😂that's tickled me!

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 22:24

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 22:20

Countryside around Glasgow but family going back to Hebrides and west Scotland (Argyll ) and also Orkney.

I'm not far from glasgow myself. Been to Orkney with my parents growing up, such a lovely place. 😃

Panda89 · 31/08/2025 22:28

We have:
Nuclear man
police lady
the geeks
cider man
no ball games

MissHollysDolly · 31/08/2025 22:31

We’ve got “Jane in the big house” and “Jane in the little house”

PasDevantLesElephants · 31/08/2025 22:31

The Can’t Parks
Mr Beaten Down by Life
The Beddingfields (he looked like Daniel, so we called her Natasha)
And a lady that has now moved out we called Anal, because her number plate was A4NL or something.

Daygloboo · 31/08/2025 22:34

Flannelfeet · 31/08/2025 22:24

I'm not far from glasgow myself. Been to Orkney with my parents growing up, such a lovely place. 😃

Yes I'm.hoping one day to do a big tour round lots of places up there. I dont know it well enough , which is a shame..

ScruffMuffin · 31/08/2025 23:33

No idea what we get called, but where we used to live (20-odd years ago), a group of teenagers used to call my husband Jonathan Creek to his face. He'd often be out walking the dog at the same time that these kids were walking to the bus stop. Sometimes they used to sing the theme tune to him. He doesn't really look like Alan Davies, and is younger and better looking. At the time, they had fairly similar hair, and Jonathan Creek was pretty popular.

stonebrambleboy · 31/08/2025 23:47

Farmer and Mad Cow ( as in the disease) his wife
Uncle Fester
The Smiths
Catwoman
Baileys Mum
Mc Fly
Mork and Mindy

stonebrambleboy · 31/08/2025 23:49

Oh and Doctor Who as he's a doctor but we don't know his name.

GingersOwner26 · 01/09/2025 00:55

Years ago my grandparents used to have Mr Drunkbum, Mr and Mrs Lovey-dovey, Mr Streaky, Mr and Mrs Fatty, Mr and Mrs Cocky.