What's in a name? Animal nicknames.
 

What do you call these critters we pursue.... I know of "Bush pig" for black bear. "Swamp Donkey" for moosey. I have a few choice words for whitetail but none that would be considered a nickname. Any other good ones out there?

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Nickname
 

Quill Pig- Porcupine
Speed Goat- Antelope

Loper- Antelope (or goat, speed goat)

Flying azzhole = magpie

Guess I consider it disrespectful to the game and a good way to offend people. Must be the German in me. :D


Grizz

Holstein pheasant (magpie)
Jumper (whitetail)
Slow elk (cattle)

I’m sure I have more back in the memory bank.

Trash panda is my go to for raccoon.

doubt that it will catch on
 

Heard this one the other day. Use at your discretion.

Rats, now I don't want to share either. :D

Cream butt for mulies
Flag tail for whitetail
Grass rats for Richardson ground squirrels
Mole for pocket gophers
Annoying pain in the back side stupid white bird, for snow geese(especially if they fail to decoy)
Green head for a male mallard
Slough shark, snot rocket, jack, for northern pike.

red squirrel - bushy tail tree rat
crow - egg sucker
skunk - stink pup
coyote - yapper
Mule deer - big ears
Whitetail - bonehead or jerky
Elk - hairy bush ghost
Moose - bullwinkle (origins of this nickname are from an old comic book character)
Wolverine - skunk bear or quickhatch(Cree name, kwĭkkwâhaketsh).
Timber wolf - witches horse
Cougar - sneaker or deer tiger
Moth- candle fly
Falcons - duck busters
Great horned owl or great grey owl - flying lynx
Earthworm/dew worm - dirt snake
Beaver - stick pig.
Sea Gull - Sh*t hawk

Proper name for a nearby big black bear or grizzly bear is "Ma'am" or "Sir."

I always wondered why you called TreeGuy a red magpie! :lol:


I call my Lab Duke - Turdface quite a bit. Mostly because he tries to eat poop if we aren't looking.

Awesome. :)

Coyote/ yote, song dog
Gopher/ whistle pig
Grizzly/ humpy

ya because Germans have no nicknames for anything especially animals. :thinking-006:

Hahahaha!!! Now that was good!

Flat tail- beaver
Flag tail - white tail
Flat head - White tail doe
Propeller head- Mule deer doe
Song dog -coyote
Ditch parrot - Pheasant
White tail- walleye
Jack- Pike
Slobber nose or swamp donkey- moose
Slow Elk- domestic bovine
Cat

What’s I. A name
 

You could add cormorants to that name too. Also jughead for a moose.

Bush Grizzly - Grouse (when they take off directly from your feet and scare the crap out of you)

Here are a few that haven’t been mentioned yet.
Walleye- Walter
Canada Goose- Honker
Rabbit- Hasenpfeffer (that one is for u Grizzly Adams it’s a German rabbit stew)

Canada Geese - Drones, Box Cars, 747’s, Greys
Speckle Bellies - Bars, Lesbians(long story...... involves squealing)
Mallards - Red Legs, Kenny Rodger’s Roasters
Pintails - Sprig
Snow Geese - Sky Carp
Does - Nannies, Slicks
Small antlered males of any species - Scrap
Coyotes - Verm
Big Buck - Prairie Schooner, Slob, Hawg, Toad, Pig, Whopper
Wide Buck - Airplane
Bull Moose - Murray
Cow Moose - Maria
Elk - Forest Horse
Gopher - Sod Rat
Pigeon - Winged Rat

We call the mulies Jumpers.

grouse/pheasant -- ditch chicken

This list is AWESOME! my vocabulary increased three hundred fold in two days :)

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Similar for me, Grouse are Ditch chickens and pheasant are ditch pigeons

I tend to call a moose a moose and an elk an elk

Poisonous snake-danger noodle or nope rope
Bear-danger floof
Kangaroo is a tyrannosaurus deer
Lamma or alpaca is giraffe sheep
Ostrich is giraffe bird
Zebra is a prison pony
Tiger is a danger zebra
Skunk is a fart squirrel
Otter is a sea catsnake
Penguin is a formal chicken
Fox is a forest corgi

http://boredomtherapy.com/funny-animal-names/

There's gotta be some names for sheep out there. Anyone?

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Domestic sheep- range maggots

I usually just call them dinner.:character0110::tongue0017::burp: