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Plum?

36 replies

missyfafa · 21/04/2010 18:42

Is Plum a proper name or just a nickname for something? Anyone know. Is it cute or too much?

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Psammead · 21/04/2010 18:45

A plum is a proper name for a small purplish fruit. That's about it!

Sorry, it's really not my idea of a nice name.

alfiemama · 21/04/2010 18:45

Its a bit peaches geldoff, could be quite cute, like pixie.

Evenstar · 21/04/2010 18:45

I know a Plum it is a nickname for Victoria in her case.

BooBooChicken · 21/04/2010 18:46

as a nickname maybe, not sure what it would be a derivative of though..

posieparker · 21/04/2010 18:46

plums. sorry

amidaiwish · 21/04/2010 18:49

don't do it.
haven't you heard the expression "what a plum?"

seeker · 21/04/2010 18:53

It's a proper name for a fruit and a slang term for a testicle.

NEVER call any child a name that can be described as 'cute'. Cute is fine until you are about 5 - then you want to be taken seriously some of the time.

dizzydixies · 21/04/2010 18:53

I love it but would never use it - setting a child up for utter ricicule unfortunately great NN for something though

PlumBumMum · 21/04/2010 18:55

I love it

missyfafa · 21/04/2010 19:12

Well, that's told me! I do know a Plum, or at least know of a Plum and she is in her 60's. Must ask her where it comes from. My husband really likes it.

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DinahRod · 21/04/2010 19:13

Avoid mn Duff

Works as a nn.

LetThereBeRock · 21/04/2010 19:28

It's awful.

SillyTillyBilly · 21/04/2010 19:33

Cute nickname - much like poppet, sweet pea, pumpkin, petal, honey etc but I thik it would be better to choose a stronger name for the birth certificate and use it as an endearing nn.

padraig · 21/04/2010 19:35

Awful name.

Northernlurker · 21/04/2010 19:38

Fine as a nickname, awful as a real name. There are some things which just don't work - like Tulip, Daffodil, Sunset and Ocean

CuppaTeaJanice · 21/04/2010 19:40

It reminds me of Terry Christian on The Word in the early 1990s talking about 'feeling his plums'.

I really don't want to be thinking about Terry Christian's testicles 20 years on...

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skidoodly · 21/04/2010 20:04

How about Bollock? That's cute.

Undercovamutha · 21/04/2010 20:12

Oh please say you are joking?

Don't do it - your poor child will have the worst school years ever!

BTW I regularly use it as a slightly less offensive way of calling someone an idiot - as in 'what a plum!' or 'you plum'.

Just. Don't. Do. It.

notquitenormal · 21/04/2010 20:17

Actually, I think it's a lovely name.

For a rabbit

schroeder · 21/04/2010 20:24

It's a shortened form of Pelham; as in Pelham Grenville Wodehouse he was (apparently) referred by his friends and family as Plum.
I'm not sure it's due for a comeback though.

APassionateWoman · 21/04/2010 20:25

PMSL

Please don't.

MrsJohnDeere · 21/04/2010 20:28

I know one who actually has that as her real name, not a nn.
Not my cup of tea

pitterpatterfeet · 21/04/2010 20:34

Very funny!