Teachers nicknames

JohnnyFlash

Our red haired French teacher was known as Fanny Rouge.

FFred

diomed wrote: »

I wonder did teachers have nicknames for pupils.

Some of us most certainly do. They would put the ones here to shame because we are the mature adults of course :pac:

Dog Man Star

I started secondary school in 1988. There was a teacher nicknamed "Paki", apparently because he had spent his summer holidays in Africa (!) at some point in the early 1980s and had arrived back with a deep tan. My much older brother called him this name when he was in the school a good seven years before I started there.

Said tan was nowhere to be seen in 1988, yet he was still named "Paki". And he was still called this when I left in 1993.

The year before I left, a teacher with a full head of curly hair arrived back after the holidays with a blotchy bald head, obviously recovering from some illness. He, to my knowledge, was never given a nickname.

The early 1990s was a significant turning point in Irish culture, tolerance and attitudes, all for the better.

corks finest

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Following on from the 'worst teachers' thread, where some people mentioned nicknames given by teachers, what nicknames did your teachers have?

In my school, there was a Freaker, Tex, Birdman, Wally, Scratch, Fanny (usually said with her surname), Ripper, and Plank. There were probably more (it was 30 years ago so I forget!), and then variations of their actual name which I won't include.

So...what about your teachers?

Gunter/Doc/Bertie the "Beasht"/Daffy duck/juicy Lucy

corks finest

corks finest wrote: »

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Following on from the 'worst teachers' thread, where some people mentioned nicknames given by teachers, what nicknames did your teachers have?

In my school, there was a Freaker, Tex, Birdman, Wally, Scratch, Fanny (usually said with her surname), Ripper, and Plank. There were probably more (it was 30 years ago so I forget!), and then variations of their actual name which I won't include.

So...what about your teachers?

Gunter/Doc/Bertie the "Beasht"/Daffy duck/juicy Lucy

Woodie

micar

Ned
Fingers
Miss Piggy
Bleach
Fish
Faggs-er
Monkey
Joxer
Turkey
Big Bird
Jimbo

L1011

Peacock due to his walk and constant preening of his hair in anything reflective. There wasn't much hair. He was quite old.

Knightrider, due to kids being evil bastards - in a motorised wheelchair with multiple LEDs on the control panel, when motorised chairs weren't common.

Two sisters who taught the same subjects known as Witch and Bitch due to their looks and demeanour respectively.

Two teachers with the same surname were known as Ms Surname and Bimbo Surname due to having a 1980s bleached perm. In my older siblings era she was known as Bubbleperm Surname which was a little less nasty.

Dog Man Star

Dog Man Star wrote: »

I started secondary school in 1988. There was a teacher nicknamed "Paki", apparently because he had spent his summer holidays in Africa (!) at some point in the early 1980s and had arrived back with a deep tan. My much older brother called him this name when he was in the school a good seven years before I started there.

Said tan was nowhere to be seen in 1988, yet he was still named "Paki". And he was still called this when I left in 1993.

Our maths teachers nickname was “Fags” because he was a heavy smoker and reeked of them. Little did we know that he was also gay.

Peatys

One teacher had fat fingers so was called Ten Thumbs.

Westernyelp

Chum
Harry
Mohal
Podge
Porky
Toss
Ned
Poochie
Ape
Cruncher
Bull

BIT<HFORD

Mid Eighties - In making smalltalk with her, I mentioned some situation where I would have been told to "Go to the office" by another teacher, but then the end of schoolday bell rang. She replied "Bhí tú sabháilte" (You were saved).

Then in her class, I did some infraction. The end of school bell rang. She did'nt say to "Go to the office".....but the following morning when she saw me for class, the first question out of her mouth was "Did you go to the office?"

For first year, third year and fourth year students she had no real connect with the students and was a jobsworth (boy school)

branie2

Il y a
Freddy
Billy Eyebrows
Chuck
Jive
Bill the Bull

Schwanz

RHH - Red Head Herbert

Bulldog

LimeFruitGum

Jellyjaws (poor thing had quite the double chin)
Gargo (based on her surname)
Meanie Maher

Cee-Jay-Cee

Wart
Bog
Hawk
Big Dan
Fanny
Jimmy Knuckles
Biddy
Daffy
Hitler
Mary Buck
Anne Buck
Ned
Wee Micky

The cleaner was called Molly Mops and god love her but she got a wild hard time every single day.

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BIT<HFORD

Mid Eighties - In making smalltalk with her, I mentioned some situation where I would have been told to "Go to the office" by another teacher, but then the end of schoolday bell rang. She replied "Bhí tú sabháilte" (You were saved).

Then in her class, I did some infraction. The end of school bell rang. She did'nt say to "Go to the office".....but the following morning when she saw me for class, the first question out of her mouth was "Did you go to the office?"

For first year, third year and fourth year students she had no real connect with the students and was a jobsworth (boy school)

Cool story.

Woke Hogan

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Mrs Hilary in my school was known as "Hysterical Hilary," not only for her ferocious temper but also because she had had her womb removed.

Jesus.

Paul_Mc1988

Flora because she spread her legs like butter. A sight that was not welcomed

beveragelady

FFred wrote: »

Some of us most certainly do. They would put the ones here to shame because we are the mature adults of course :pac:

I am so tempted.
Not so long ago I told a colleague what I (privately) called one of my students. To be clear, I had never said it out loud before I told her, it existed as a nickname only in my imagination.
She went home and told her kids! They thought it was hilarious and it has entered their family lexicon.

Yer Da sells Avon

Lurch. Because she was quite tall and was the spitting image of Lurch from the Addams Family.

LarryGraham

micar wrote: »

Ned
Fingers
Miss Piggy
Bleach
Fish
Faggs-er
Monkey
Joxer
Turkey
Big Bird
Jimbo

Alvin
Joe
Wooly
Reggie (because he used to blink a lot)

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

micar wrote: »

Ned
Fingers
Miss Piggy
Bleach
Fish
Faggs-er
Monkey
Joxer
Turkey
Big Bird
Jimbo

I know your school :cool:

NickNickleby

Bottler - long before Brendan Grace, but the name might have been known more widely than our school. Apparently someone thought he looked like a long bottle.
Noddy - cruel because he had a twitch
Johnny - no idea
LeatherLips - good job it wasn't a girls school, he was a young French teacher , who despite being Irish, looked very French and was young.
BillyBones - after the cruel pirate, richly deserved.
Killer, alliterative name but also apt, he used to kill us. (metaphorically:pac:)

I'd suspect no one under 60 will recognise these. Aside from having to be a past pupil...

micar

LarryGraham wrote: »

Alvin
Joe
Wooly
Reggie (because he used to blink a lot)

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

I know your school :cool:

Joe and Alvin.......of course


That's mad that you recognise the school. Most are now retired and some passed away.

Forgot ..... Fat Pat

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

micar wrote: »

Joe and Alvin.......of course


That's mad that you recognise the school. Most are now retired and some passed away.

Forgot ..... Fat Pat

I’d imagine the likes of fingers and monkey, joe and jim would be retired alright. Do you know which caretaker used to mop pish off the floors of the jacks, then use that same mop to clean the tabletops in the assembly area?

Sgt Hartman

Pob - Maths teacher, his real name initials were P O'B hence the name.
Jippo - PE teacher
Ma Rice - Terrifying Business Studies Teacher
Long Tom - Lanky Science Teacher
Chuck - Our principal

micar

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

I’d imagine the likes of fingers and monkey, joe and jim would be retired alright. Do you know which caretaker used to mop pish off the floors of the jacks, then use that same mop to clean the tabletops in the assembly area?

That's mank.

I remember Aidan with the wig.

There was another guy who was a FAI referee.

Bobblehats

The Hawk
Ronnie
The Leper

LarryGraham

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

I’d imagine the likes of fingers and monkey, joe and jim would be retired alright. Do you know which caretaker used to mop pish off the floors of the jacks, then use that same mop to clean the tabletops in the assembly area?

Fat Bazz

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Yiz are both right.. fai ref and fat bazz are one and the same. Manky git! He used to try and get first years to do 100 lines for him :rolleyes:

yaguhu cloud

Flathead

micar

LarryGraham wrote: »

Fat Bazz

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

Yiz are both right.. fai ref and fat bazz are one and the same. Manky git! He used to try and get first years to do 100 lines for him :rolleyes:

Yes.....baz.

100 lines........Mad stuff.

s7ryf3925pivug

XsApollo wrote: »

Beaker Physics
Robocop English, she was ruthless and you did not mess with her.

Dozey was the principle.
Shiner was vice principle
Few others I can’t remember

I can tell you went to my school but are younger. No idea who most of them are.

Egg
Fred
Scab
Pig

The older nicknames were a bit more aggressive I suppose.

antodeco

These names existed before I went to the school!

Slim - He was overweight
ET - He had a large lump on his neck (extra testicle)
RoboCop - He had CP and couldn't walk properly

Super-Rush

Sonic.
The Bull.
The Nit.
Fanny.
The Squaw.
The Bat.
Hitler.
Jakes.
Dog Face.
Squareballs.

Rows Grower

Stovepipe wrote: »

Long Tom (very tall FCA Captain), Shine, Dicky Rasher (because he was as thin as a rake), Murt, McCavity, Dingle, RightSo (his favourite phrase), Trom agus Eadroim ( an Irish teacher who had two leathers, heavy and light), Fab Vinnie and a few other psychopaths and antisocials, including several alcoholics (Butsey)

Butsey was a harmless ol' soul, in the middle of a class he'd randomly instruct everyone to "Bí ina chodladh" so you had to fold your arms on the desk and bury your face into the timber. Then he'd pull out the naggin of whiskey from his inner jacket pocket and have an ol' swig.

Maurice was another dipso but he couldn't handle it like Butsy, he'd drink himself into oblivion and lose all interest altogether in teaching by about 1 o clock.

Queenie Long was the most persecuted teacher that I ever saw, his biro stopped working one day and without thinking he says "For God sake has anyone a spare biro?"
It was like an apache attack, in about 2 seconds there was 34 biros hopping off him and whizzing past him as he tried to duck.

The Wretch was a big posh rugby player, I met him about 10 years ago and had a good laugh with him.

The French teacher was called "Vite!" and poor old Brother Billy the religion teacher must have been in his eighties, I'd say they used just let him out of the monastery for a walk and a bit of air.

Happy days.

Sorry about that

Westernyelp wrote: »

Chum
Harry
Mohal
Podge
Porky
Toss
Ned
Poochie
Ape
Cruncher
Bull

Not forgetting Hairy Joe

The Enbalmer

OCS!

Don't forget Kipper,Benny Curtin,Bopper,Langer,Droopy,Bog,Psycho and Spud!

NickNickleby

The Enbalmer wrote: »

OCS!

Don't forget Kipper,Benny Curtin,Bopper,Langer,Droopy,Bog,Psycho and Spud!

That man was a , ahem, not my favourite teacher (assuming its the same one, a Brother). I left in '71.

Years after leaving, I spotted him crossing the road at Summerhill on my way to work. The lights were with me :pac: , but I slowed down. A guy in work said " you should have run him over" - and he didn't even go to OCS, but knew of yer man's reputation.

The Enbalmer

NickNickleby wrote:

That man was a , ahem, not my favourite teacher (assuming its the same one, a Brother). I left in '71.

Yep he was a brother..the general consensus was that he was a creepy old git..saw him explode into shocking violence once or twice too

AllForIt

dodo (as in do this then do that, not the extinct bird)
Jake (Jarleth to you)
Madigan (not her real surname)
Sonny (not sure if that was actually his real first name or not but if it was we used it as if it were his nickname)

ILoveYourVibes

Uh Teacher?

fmpisces

Only one name springs to mind right now, I'm sure there's more.
Battleaxe was the name bestowed upon our secondary school history teacher.
Most others were called by their surnames, as I gather is still common today.

Damien360

Dingers (Brother Angelus)

Fish (he drank a lot at lunch time)

Sister Tomato Face (when I was 7 this Sister .... was my teacher. She went red with rage at the drop of a hat)

Charles Babbage

We had a teacher called Hynes who was widely known as Beansy.
Another teacher of tall stature was widely known as Big Jed, I met him 20 years later at Dublin airport and it was all I could do to remember his real name.

chopperbyrne

Grease Monkey or Greaser for short.
Captain Scarlet
Seven Belly Kelly

Seanieke

Sexy Eyes Holton - Fond of a swig.
Spacer - She was an out and out space cadet.
The Rat - Because she looked like one.
Ma Connor - Don't know that one.

decky1

Ta Se,
Speedy,
Scaldy,
Bengy
Spud
all in wicklow years ago, any one remember them.?

YFlyer

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Pob - Maths teacher, his real name initials were P O'B hence the name.
Jippo - PE teacher
Ma Rice - Terrifying Business Studies Teacher
Long Tom - Lanky Science Teacher
Chuck - Our principal

Was that not her name?

Sgt Hartman

YFlyer wrote: »

Was that not her name?

Well, I think she was somebody's Ma, I'm not sure

beertons

I only remember 2 teachers.

Stalky, primary school. I never had him, but he was scary. Misbehave with him and you got a beating.

Bog Walsh, in secondary. A bit too country for the townies.