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[Opinions] Re: Terrible nickname?
by
RDNZL
(Billina)
7/12/2016, 10:11 PM
in reply to
a message by Bex
Seeing as how I have a niece who goes by the nickname
Dewey
, I can't really talk.
"And by the way, dearie, your punctuation sucks canal water!"
-The Ghost of
Vivian
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queenv
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7/12/2016, 10:27 PM
Dewey
is not a word which means a negative, unflattering personal characteristic. Not comparable.
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Joiya
7/13/2016, 7:50 AM
Dewey
is also the name of a cartoon duck though.
I would associate Daffy with the duck more readily than the out-dated term for someone who is crazy.
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