I have a friend that is trying to figure out what the nursery rhyme is that she gets her name from. He father says it’s from Australia; she’s heard it once but has since forgotten.
Her name is Kimbo. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Some Australians help ... the rest stand around "supervising".
Well, I can't recall any nursery rhyme with the name Kimbo. It could be an Australian dimiuitive of Kimberly (like Timothy might be known as Timbo).
On th other hand, it might be an aberration of Kimba, from Kimba the White Lion, a Japanese cartoon from the 1960's.
LOL, yeah everyone else just stand around (unless of course you know the answer). Supposedly it is an Australian name, but I don't ahve a clue. I was named after a great uncle so the history of my name is easy
LOL, yeah everyone else just stand around (unless of course you know the answer). Supposedly it is an Australian name, but I don't ahve a clue. I was named after a great uncle so the history of my name is easy
We 'Aussies'are notorious when it comes to abbreviations and alterations of just about anything - afternoon becomes arvo, university is uni, and so on and so forth, to the point that the average north american will find themselves simply nodding and smiling for the first couple of hours of a conversation with an aussie (don't worry - you usually catch on eventually). Kimbo is, to my knowlege, not derived from a fairy tale or anything, but rather an example of the above manipulation of the language.
Probably the Aussie version of Kim or Kimberley. Don't look for an immediately logical connection, though. We call tall people "Shorty", short people "Lofty", and redheads "Bluey". Short names are commonly elongated (Smith to "Smithy" & Jones to "Jonesey"). Plus we have our own version of cockney rhyming slang (e.g. a sick person, usually described as feeling "crook", can also be said to be "butchers", from "butcher's hook" which of course rhymes with crook! Thus: "Jonesey's butchers, but Bluey's bonzer". (We won't go into "bonzer" in this lesson ... that's a little too advanced for Aussie 101).
