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IN REFERRING TO MEDICAL PATIENTS, IF ONE IS CONSIDERED
MENTALLY UNBALANCED, HE IS SAID TO BE A "GORD" AT
VANDERBILT HOSPITAL AND CENTRAL STATE HOSPITAL.
Submitter comment: A GOURD IS HOLLOW
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): GOURD
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 06-15-1973
IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, A DOCTOR WHOSE SPECIALTY IS
ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY, IS CALLED A CARPENTER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): BONES ; STRAIGHT STRAIGHTEN
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 06-15-1973
IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, DOCTORS WHOSE SPECIALTY IS
INTERNAL MEDICINE, ARE CALLED "FLEAS" BECAUSE THEY JUMP
FROM ONE PART OF A PATIENT'S BODY TO ANOTHER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 06-15-1973
DONNA'S SPEECH TEACHER WAS CALLED THE "PEANUT MAN" BECAUSE
HIS FACE LOOKED LIKE A PEANUT.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; PALOS PARK
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
DONNA'S NICKNAME IS "DONNA BANNANA" FOR HER "UP AND BANANA."
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; PALOS PARK
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
IT IS SAID THAT ON THE DAY OF AUGUST 7th WHEN ATOMIC BOMB
WAS DROPPED IN HIROSHIMA, ALL SPIRITS OF THE DEAD BY BOMB
COME BACK TO THIS PLACE. IN ORDER FOR THESE SPIRITS TO
FIND THE WAY TO GO TO HEAVEN, PEOPLE FLOAT DEDICATORY
LANTERNS WITH EACH DEAD PERSON'S NAME ON IT ON THE WATER.
THIS CUSTOM IS ALSO HELD AT THE END OF THE BON SEASON FOR
THE ANCESTORS.
Where learned: JAPAN ; TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; HIROSHIMA CITY
Date learned: 09-20-1977
IN THAILAND, IT IS CONSIDERED A TREMENDOUS COMPLIMENT
TO CALL A WOMAN AS BEAUTIFUL AS A WHITE ELEPHANT.
Where learned: THAILAND
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
RAG AND REFUSE COLLECTOR USED TO TRAVEL THROUGH ALLEYS
WITH HORSE DRAWN CART, AND WE CALLED HIM "SHEENY MAN."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 00-00-1926
THEY REMEMBER A REFUSE COLLECTOR GOING THROUGH ALLEYS
BOTH DETROIT, MICHIGAN AND TOLEDO, OHIO, AND THEY REFERRED
TO HIM AS THE SHEENY MAN.
MRS. GENTILE SAID THE ONE IN TOLEDO HAD A KAZOO-LIKE HORN
WHICH HE BLEW, TO LET PEOPLE KNOW HE WAS COMING.
MR. GENTILE SAID THAT THE BOYS USED TO SWITCH THE REINS
ON THE HORSE AROUND, SO THAT WHEN THE MAN CAME BACK
FROM MAKING HIS COLLECTIONS IN THE HOUSES,
HE HAD A HARD TIME STEERING THE ANIMAL, SINCE THE
LINES WERE REVERSED.
MRS. GENTILE SAID THAT WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG AND LIVING
IN TOLEDO, OHIO, HER BROTHER {JOHN}, BEING JEALOUS OF A
NEW BORN BROTHER {PAUL}, WANTED TO GIVE HIM AWAY TO THE
SHEENY MAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; OHIO ; TOLEDO ; DETROIT ; HUNTINGTON WOODS
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
NICKNAME
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN CUSTOMARY TO GIVE BABIES LONG NAMES
AND THEN ABBREVIATE THEM FOR EVERYDAY USE; THUS WILLIAM
WAS CALLED BILL AND JIM FOR JAMES... THESE WERE CALLED
"NURSE NAMES." AS THE CHILD GREW TO BE AN ADULT, THESE
NURSE NAMES STUCK, ALTHOUGH SOME RECEIVED A SPECIAL
NAME FOR SOME PROMINENT TRAIT AND WERE CALLED SOMETHING
ELSE INSTEAD, AS CURLY OR BALDY OR RED. THESE WERE
CALLED "EKE-NAMES" FROM THE SAXON FOR "ALSO."
SLURRED OVER IN COMMON SPEECH, THESE ALSO NAMES BECAME
NEKE NAMES, THEN TO NICKNAMES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROCHESTER HILLS
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname SPEECH -- Folk etymology |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PERSONAL NICKNAME
EVERY TIME, SINCE HIS MARRIAGE, THAT MY UNCLE REFERS TO HIS WIFE -
MY AUNT, WHO IS POLISH - HE "ENDEARINGLY" REFERS TO HER AS "THE
POLACK." NO MATTER WHERE HE IS OR WITH WHOM, MY POOR AUNT SHIRLEY
IS ALWAYS "THE POLACK."
Where learned: UNKNOWN
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
NICKNAME
DINGLEDORF IS ANOTHER NAME FOR A FOOL.
Where learned: DETROIT, MICHIGAN
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 10-00-1969
NICKNAME
I HAVE A YOUNGER SISTER WHO TELLS ME THAT THE LAST PERSON TO HANG UP
HIS COAT IN THE CLOAK ROOM IS A "BLACK-EYED BOOB."
Where learned: UNKNOWN
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: UNKNOWN
NICKNAME (SUGAR)
SHE TELLS ME THAT A BOY SHE KNOWS IS CALLED SUGAR, BECAUSE ABOUT 2
YRS. AGO, WHEN SHE WAS PLAYING WITH A DOG NAMED SUGAR, SHE CALLED THE
DOG, AND THIS BOY CAME. HE WAS THEN NICKNAMED SUGAR, AND THE NAME
STUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
NICKNAME
WHILE PLAYING A GAME OF TOUCH FOOTBALL, WE NICKNAMED A PLAYER WHO WAS
6'4"TALL AND 250 POUNDS - - "SUGAR BEAR."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GARDEN CITY
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 09-00-1969
NICKNAMES
AWFUL ART AND EASY ED. (REFERRING TO THE DIFFICULTY OF RECEIVING A
GOOD GRADE FROM BOTH FR. LOVELYS.)
Where learned: UNKNOWN
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 10-00-1968
NICKNAMES: FOR THOSE WHO WEAR BRACES ON THEIR TEETH.
TINSEL TEETH, METAL MOUTH, AND RAILROAD TRACKS. THESE ARE SOME OF THE
NAMES I WAS TORMENTED WITH WHILE I WAS WEARING BRACES IN GRADE
SCHOOL. I ATTENDED "OUR LADY OF FATIMA" IN OAK PARK, MICHIGAN.
Where learned: GRADE SCHOOL 2
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
NICKNAME
THEY CALL HER AMAZON BECAUSE SHE'S SO WIDE AT THE MOUTH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 10-00-1967
NICKNAME OF A WOMAN DOCTOR
SHE WAS THE ONLY "HEN MEDIC."
Where learned: SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 10-00-1969
ACCOUNTING STUDENT'S NICKNAME
BOOKIE - THE NAME GIVEN TO THE ACCOUNTING STUDENT WHO KNOWS HOW TO
MAKE JOURNAL ENTRIES WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE THEORY BEHIND IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; COMMERCE SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname |
Date learned: 11-00-1968