What is a terrible nickname?
Post your answer in the LEAVE A COMMENT section below. I’m not the boss of you, though. Don’t write anything for all I care! I’m beginning to understand why you got that nickname in high school.
. . .here are my thoughts.
What is a terrible nickname?
I can understand Bradley being called Brad, or Kimberly shortening to Kim. Even the two-step process of James to Jimmy, further condensed to Jim is understandable. Hell, I’ll even give the benefit of the doubt to Peg as a nickname for Margaret. I don’t remember how that one came about, but I once read a reasonable explanation online. But how the hell did the Richards of the world get shafted with Dick? It wouldn’t be hard to search Google, getting just the tip needed to discover the perfectly reasonable explanation. I decided, instead, to head right into writing this complaint without getting bogged down with such research. That doesn’t mean I can’t take a few stabs at inserting my own reasoning. Dick with a lower case “d” (aka “little dick”) was first used as slang for a detective. Soon thereafter, it became a common term for the male sex organ, and eventually a nickname for a contemptible person. I hypothesize an old-timey insult involved saying a nemesis’ sexual organ was so small, they’d need to hire a dick to find it. To which the penile-insulted man would unsnap his suspenders and announce, “You’re a dick!”