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[Opinions] Candy
I have a fondness for Candy. I would never use it, but there is something about it that makes me smile. I know a lot of people consider it dumb or trashy, but what do you think? Does the Iggy Pop song save it? ;) "What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." -Charles Bukowski
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It's not for me. I'm sorry to say that I am one of those people who thinks 'dumb' is the word for it.It's kind of unfortunate because I do think Candace is quite pretty.
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I feel like I have no good reason or disliking it. Yet I dislike it. It's a bit trashy, I guess, but that could be redeemed. It's juvenile, but I could get past that if it was used as a nickname - I like the sound of Candida, for what it's worth, even if it is a fungus. But I just don't like Candy. Lower case candy on the other hand.... I'm into gummy bears right now.
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It's fine. I mean, on certain people it sure can come across as trashy. And there are people who'd embrace that as a cool thing. But I think of it as a normal nickname for Candace, rather dated but not childish or sleazy. If I hear it as the name of an average woman to me it's like Randi for Miranda or Mindy for Melinda ... it's just a name. A perfectly ordinary, familiar form of a dignified name. For heavensake.I hate that Iggy Pop song and I think the name seems trashy in the song, on purpose.
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Aw, I love it. :)
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I only like it as a nickname for Candace.
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I don't know the Iggy Pop song; Iggy Pop was never something I listened to or got much airplay.
I don't like Candy at all, it's dumb and trashy and also lame. I do really like Candice or Candace, but it seems that Candy is all but inevitable as a nn, more so than with just about any other name and its nickname.
I have known a couple Candaces and a Candisha, and they were all called Candy. Also one of my uncles had a three-legged dog named Candy.
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Not Tripod? I've known a couple of people with 3-legged dogs named Tripod.
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she was named before she lost her legI forget how she lost it, she was pretty old by the time I was old enough to remember her and to me she'd always had three legs. I think she was hit by a car, but it's possible she got in a bad fight; they lived in the western part of the state (Oklahoma) and there was talk of coyotes sometimes.
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True, likely the Tripods I knew were born that way, or lost their leg(s) as puppies, and had their names changed. My daughter's newish second dog is named Run, short for a long kennel name, and it surely fits her;she has what daughter calls "a strong prey drive", meaning she'll run off after anything wild-squirrel, deer, fox, moose.
They haven't had her long enough to feel she'll come back to them(and she's 8 years old), so daughter's S.O. puts a GPS thing on her collar, to find her if necessary.
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I knew a Candice who was never called Candy. For what it's worth. I don't see how Candy is any more inevitable as a nickname for Candice than any other nickname for any other name, since Candice is a two-syllable name that trips off the tongue quite easily. In fact, it's very similar to my name (which is the reason that I'd never use it), and I've never had a nickname.
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I think it's cute as hell. I don't know the Iggy Pop song, so that's not what saves it for me. I just think it's sweet and cute. However, I would use it only as a nickname for Candice, a name which I do like anyway, regardless of whether or not Candy is used as a nickname. That way, if a girl feels that Candy is too juvenile or silly or whatever when she'd older, she has a full name to fall back on. I think Candice looks better on a job application than Candy. I do worry that other people would inwardly roll their eyes at Candy. But as a nickname for Candice, on a little girl at least, it's adorable.
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I was at school with a Candy. Candy Mercia Anne, or perhaps Marcia. The teachers never recovered: at the start of every year she faced the same interrogation - was she sure, was it really on her birth certificate, had she checked with her mother?She was quite bright, quite pleasant, quite pretty and a good swimmer. Every summer her blonde hair turned green from the pool chemicals. Nobody quite liked to suggest that they were interacting with hair chemicals!I don't know from Iggy Pop songs, but I've known too many dogs named Honey, Candy,
Sweetie etc to take it seriously on a human. I'd use Candida, but only as a mn; Candace used to be on a list of possibles but I've gone off it since Candice and Candiss started emerging.
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No. It doesn't. Candy just makes me think of a cartoon character, and yes, it was a popular stripper pseudonym for awhile. I don't think its redeemable as a full name but could be usable as a nickname for something. Candace? Cynthia?
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I hate it. So trashy, tacky, childish and ugly. Probably one of my least favourite names ever.
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DittoCandy is the eponymous stripper name.
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My sister is Candice nn Candi. She's 16 years older than me so I have always known it to be a normal name. Just as ordinary as my name. I know a lot of people see it as stripperish ("Hi, I'm Candi" in a breathy voice) but I don't. My sis is bookish and a professor so I see that.
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It ' s a GP of mine. But I think it's too childish and nicknamey to be used as a full name.In Italy it 's mainly associated with the old anime about the girl training to be a nurse.
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