Eccentric nickname names like Buffy, Saffy, Bunty, Tiggy, etc.

[Canone]

Girl or boy, the sort you’d find in Jeeves and Wooster. Hit me!

Don’t worry, these are not for a human baby

I knew a Pooky female human! And a Buggy

What were the heavies called in The Night Manager? Tabby and something else...?

Gussie.
Pp mentioned Rumer Godden - Kizzie.

Had a uni friend whose younger brother had a perfectly normal name but was known to everyone, including parents and teachers, as 'Rack' and I'm not sure anyone could remember why!

I know a Bing (she is older than the search engine)

Tuppence

Tiggy ( she growled like a tiger when small)
Q (short for Queenie, because she was bossy.)
Pup ( before he was born, when asked what she wanted, his elder sister had answered, ‘a puppy’. As a family, they also had a dog called ‘Boy’)
Minnie ( daughter of Max)

My mum nearly called my sister Pandora and she would have been Panda for short

puppymouse - I knew a Pandora and she was POG for short.

My dd is Pookie.

Ill have to mame change now

Family member known as piggy - been called it since birth, but unfortunately she grew to be quite curvy, so whenever I call her piggy/pigs in public I get the evil eye from strangers!

Anon I've only heard of Pan! Not sure what DM was thinking...

My aunt was a Theresa and she was known as Teasy, which I love.

Teasy is a common form of Theresa in Ireland (and the name of a character in a long running soap opera).

I don't know if anyone listens to the high low podcast with Pandora Sykes and Dolly Alderton, but Dolly sometimes refers to Pandora as Panda...I think it's a cute nn 😄

My dad calls my mum buttercup

I know a Minty-short for Araminta

I love Pinky and Poppet - have known one of each and they always seemed a bit exotic to me with their unusual names

Oh, and a Tootie!

My cat is called Buttercup👍

I went to school with a Bambi.

No idea what her real name actually was!

Pebbles
Wombat
Nimrod
Pinky
Tufty
Toots

Frippy (also quite posh)

I know a:
Patch
Minty
Pumbaa
Boo
Tiny
Finty
Tinks
Jinks