So what is Binty short for?

[LynetteScavo]

If anything?

I over heard a mum call her DD this in Monsoon the other day.

A nn perhaps?

Could she have misheard? Bunty?

Oh dear. That's unfortunate..

No definately Binty.

Little Binty was bored, and her Mum was getting quite annoyed with her.

(I've never got annoyed with my bored Dc's in shops, oh no. )

Ah it is a proper name

Ah......interesting. A blond little girl with a Swahili name.

ugly bint round this way

I'm sure there was a great great aunt somewhere in the family who was Arabinta, known as binty. Sounds very Georgette Heyer!

bint is girl in arabic but like BBB says, in a lot of places its a derogatory (sp?) term

The only Binty I know, is actually Belinda.

usually Bindy tbh

Or Arabinta - that is a name isn't it?

It means "daughter" in Arabic. But it's a more usual form of address than saying "daughter" in English, iyswim.

Araminta is a name.