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Queenie

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RetroMum1 · 16/01/2011 20:06

Any thoughts?

I wrote on an earlier thread that I was thinking of using it for DD2 and thought I'd open up it's own thread!

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FoxyRevenger · 16/01/2011 20:09

Sorry but it's really really really not for me.

It's akin to naming your daughter Princess, in my opinion.

Either that or the nickname for a really old woman whose real name is Euphemia or something.

truffleshuffle · 16/01/2011 20:09

Honestly?
It sounds like a prostitute's name....sorry.

catinthehat2 · 16/01/2011 20:09
Shock

no, please, no

Lulumaam · 16/01/2011 20:10

nope. isn't it the name of revolting character from one of the adrian mole books?

you will make your baby sound like an ageing harridan from birth, which is never a good thing

it's retro, but it ain't cute

don't go there

gree · 16/01/2011 20:10

I really like it

MistleToad · 16/01/2011 20:11

Vile I'm afraid!

Like some 50 fags a day screeching harridan sitting in a rough East End boozer.

Maisiethemorningsidecat · 16/01/2011 20:13

Ditto MistleToad

There are lots of lovely names out there - why not pick one of them instead? Wink

Rhubarbgarden · 16/01/2011 20:13

No.

tummytickler · 16/01/2011 20:15

I really like it, but feel it ought to have a proper name - which is why I would consider Victoria, with Queenie as a nn.

CaptainNancy · 16/01/2011 20:16

bit too 'blackadder' for me...

purplepidjin · 16/01/2011 20:16

It's the nickname of someone named after the current Queen - Elizabeth atm, previously Victoria and I guess Kate/Catherine in the future...

ChippingInSmellyCheeseFreak · 16/01/2011 20:18

Sorry, but it's horrible. I'm not going to describe what it conjures up in my mind as it would get me in trouble on here - just NO.

As for tummytickler - I really hope you said that in jest Shock

QBEE · 16/01/2011 20:19

LOVE LOVE LOVE Grin

OddBodd · 16/01/2011 20:19

Oh like the Enid Blyton character? Wasn't she the girl with a stone heart?? Not a fan myself.

3nearly4 · 16/01/2011 20:56

Sounds like a nickname for ones lady garden.

onimolap · 16/01/2011 21:18

I see it as very, very old fashioned, but in a nice, quaint way, IYSWIM. I knew one who was about the same age as my granny.

It also reminds me of "Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball" ( does anyone still play that?)

NannyState · 16/01/2011 21:27

It's a real old East End name.

I know a couple of ancient old Queenies, and one in her 30s.

Absolutely love it.

ValiumSilverTongue · 17/01/2011 00:11

Terrible. Are you going to buy one of those porcelain comemorative plates with will and kate for £70? I wonder who would buy one?!

the same person who'd call their child Queenie??

ValiumSilverTongue · 17/01/2011 00:11

Just thinking

Queen as a name I could deal with. But making it Queen ie is what makes me need a ginger cracker.

LetThereBeRock · 17/01/2011 08:49

Absolutely not. It's a terrible name.

FoxyRevenger · 17/01/2011 11:40

3nearly4 hahaha.....

mum295 · 17/01/2011 15:40

No, sorry. It's my Gran's nn as she has three forenames, all names of queens, but even so I don't think it's right for a little girl.

ConnorTraceptive · 17/01/2011 15:42

awful

GwendolineMaryLacey · 17/01/2011 15:45

Bert Baxter's lady friend in Adrian Mole. Forever associated with false teeth and too much rouge, sorry.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 17/01/2011 15:49

I knew someone who had a cat called Queenie, so that's what I think of when I hear it, and the Adrian Mole character.

And some older scousers will call any woman "Queen" in conversation.

Just can't imagine calling a child Queenie....

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