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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?

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Miffylou · 30/08/2025 23:57

Not a nickname, but my extremely talkative neighbour is called Roger. If he spots DH or me in the garden he witters on and on and it’s hard to escape for ages.

This is known in our house as being Rogered.

BebbanburgIsMine · 30/08/2025 23:57

Not where I live now, but at my last house we had an Isa.

If you’re Scottish you’ll get it

She was insanely nosy and gossiped about everything.

Corgi2023 · 30/08/2025 23:58

We call our immediate neighbours by name. Other ones in the street are:
Drug dealer bitch,
Nosey Louise,
Scottish tennis couple,
Italian family, (we are not entirely sure what nationality they are).
Spanish family,
Model aircraft man

Cartonhazy · 30/08/2025 23:59

Your Best Mate/My Best Mate, because he used to make a beeline for my husband whenever he saw him, and would chat away like they were besties.

Green Door (self explanatory)

Potato (because she looks like a potato) and Potato's Mum

DRD (goes by full name on Facebook so we used to refer to them by their full name and eventually shortened it)

Also had nicknames for customers when working in retail many moons ago:
The T-shirt eater
The shoe sniffer
Pervy man
30/30

FrodoBiggins · 30/08/2025 23:59

The dad in the family next door is so so nice (we hear his little son cheer when he comes home from work and the dad says stuff like "YESSS I'M SO GLAD I'M BACK!" so we call him "the nicest man in the world" shortened to "niceman" (pronounced nicemun) and "niceman's son/wife" etc. We know all their names. We were having a BBQ with them once night and DH - drunk - told him this lol. He was touched/ confused.

The family opposite have a very annoying child who kicks a ball against a very loud wall for hours a day (and is generally shouty and rude) and we call him Billyballs and his parents "the dickheads" or "Mr and Mrs Dickhead".

Sisters two houses away - we learned both their names but we met Emily first so they're Emily and Emily's sister. Call her that so much I'm now not 100% on her actual name

Sub2Mumma · 31/08/2025 00:01

NDN to the right - their names
across the way to the left - godly house as they attend every mass religiously
directly opposite - football house as their son is always being ferried to various trainings / games
across the way to the right - poodle house as they’ve a GIANT poodle 🐩 who escapes constantly

vipersnest1 · 31/08/2025 00:01

I had ‘shrieky’ - she has now fully evolved into ‘the screamer’. Her father speaks another language which I cannot place, but he is the ‘shouty man’ when he loses his temper - usually with him bawling and her screaming back. It’s all very disfunctional.

dunkery · 31/08/2025 00:01

Blue cars
The Twitchers - always watching everyone.
Mrs Fussy - House reeks of bleach.
Sooty cat's mum and dad
Dippy mum - almost car reg
Roy or Ray alternating - can never remember which name

FrodoBiggins · 31/08/2025 00:02

notyetpregnant · 30/08/2025 23:13

a few years ago a drunk driver hit a few cars on my road very late at night, and in the middle of all the drama I looked out the window to see my neighbour (who had been in bed when the incident happened) was out on the street offering out cans of cider to bystanders and then a little later with a glass of gin.

My partner and I jokingly started referring to him as gin and tonic after this and this has stuck so we now only ever refer to him as gin.

Legend

Delphigirl · 31/08/2025 00:03

We have a very fat man married to a woman who is very vocal about having had a tummy tuck. So they are known as Tummy and Friar Tuck.

lovemycbf · 31/08/2025 00:04

We have the flanders,Bruce Springsteen ,the fat controller and the meatballs

JoanThursday · 31/08/2025 00:05

Most of ours we know by name. Others are known as:

Canoe man
Foghorn Leghorn
Gardening van man
That Bloody Woman

Maybeitsmable · 31/08/2025 00:09

The Poopers
Santa & Jane
The white witch
The chainsmoker

PennySweeet · 31/08/2025 00:13

Willy One Tooth

Drunk woman

Skinny Prick (This was because he was drunk one night and kept shouting 'skinny prick' out of his bedroom window until 2am).

GuiltyPleasure · 31/08/2025 00:14

Our next door neighbours are “the footballers”.
They’re lovely guys house-sharing that happen to play for a premier league team. The number of delivery drivers that ask us if X lives next door is unreal. They’re the most quiet, lovely neighbours you’d ever get (they also throw an excellent end of season party)

Willowback · 31/08/2025 00:17

We have in our cul de sac
The Adams family - their house has a turret and big gates
Crabbit features
The dead woman (she died not long after we moved in and the family haven't sold the house after 2 years)
The campers
The young folk

Ginburee · 31/08/2025 00:17

Cat feeders.
Ben 10
Sex register man (sadly put us through hell)
Gossip Granny
Car puncher
Big dog boys
Mad Mary (not Mary but way too outing)
Lovely Churchies
Gosh, we seem to have a few don't we. .

Fayaway · 31/08/2025 00:18

Brumchum · 30/08/2025 23:14

Sulking Sandra and Kinky Ken.

I had Sewing Sue and Leathery Ken 😂 I’m convinced this will be outing.

Silverfoxette · 31/08/2025 00:19

Multiple people in our village have told me they call dh the man who walks the dog. It’s quite funny how many people have told me this

OSTMusTisNT · 31/08/2025 00:22

vipersnest1 · 31/08/2025 00:01

I had ‘shrieky’ - she has now fully evolved into ‘the screamer’. Her father speaks another language which I cannot place, but he is the ‘shouty man’ when he loses his temper - usually with him bawling and her screaming back. It’s all very disfunctional.

We had 'the screamer', thankfully that stopped after the got married 😆.

MyOtherCarIsAPorsche · 31/08/2025 00:25

Next door is Chreeeesteeeen - said in Russian accent. Our kitchen windows face each other and the person who is first to notice that she has closed the kitchen blind has to say Gooooooodnight Chreeeesteeeen (in a Russian accent).

Over the road is Fatty Feldman (he's really skinny). And Pirate Pete the World's Oldest Student - he's possibly just a few years younger and never left home/parents/seemed to be studying forever. The Weatherman - he can be heard long before he is seen, his walking stick taps the path very quickly - he tells you facts about the weather, space, and his childhood - very interesting chap if you have time to stop and chat but most people cross the road to avoid him as he likes to stop you and can chat forever.

At our holiday home there's The Chairs, Peanut, The Curly Perms, Nappy Yappy Dog, Byker's Grove, and The Bin Man.

I overheard a little girl say to her mum 'Look mummy, the clog lady!' So perhaps that's what people call me? I've worn wooden soled clogs since my 20s.

I have a few choice names for H - none of them complimentary.

Wildflowerswildhorses · 31/08/2025 00:26

My late dh used to call one of our former neighbours Foghorn because he was always yelling. Usually awful things at his unfortunate gf.

vinegarforeverything · 31/08/2025 00:27

The messy people (they're messy). The Iranians (they're Iranian). The Spaniards (they have a holiday home in Spain). The Psychos (they're both psychologists).

Wemdubz · 31/08/2025 00:27

The people with the dog
Those two idiots
Fatal Attraction
The nice couple

Flumpaphone · 31/08/2025 00:29

We have

The people who are good at bins
Mrs Pernickity Volvo (shortened to Mrs PV)

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