Have you ever called someone "Big Man"

[H-O-W-L]

I reserve "Big Man", "Cowboy", "Amigo", "Hombre", and "Partner" for when I'm royally fucked off with someone. It's usually a sign I'm about to tell them to fuck off cunt and/or go wring themselves

[pigamus]

Bloke in Birmingham called me "Bud"

He should live till about Wednesday

[easytarget]

There's a scotch bar down the road from my house (St Andrew's on SR 99 between the expensive grocery store and the place where I grimly do a work out multiple times a week to no avail). A scotch man runs it. He called me 'big man'. Not sure how to process that as I believe yer scotch use it as a ladz bantz insult for little fellas (source Kumail Nanjiani : "when I was in Endingbro they called me big man, sarcastically"). I'm 6'2", not comically MASSIVE but, even in the nutrition rich US, above average height. Maybe he calls everyone 'big man' or maybe he picks someone on each table that he's serving and singles them out as 'big man' (if we're using this as a data point the term is not applied to the biggest or smallest man at the table - the algorithm (if it exists) is undefined).

I don't call people 'big man', it's odd.

[phes]

I should clarify for the more woke among you that I was not actually bragging about the size of my penis, which is in fact of average size.

humblebrag

I got an email from a colleague thanking me for sending them some revision notes and it said 'thanks big dog!'

I quite like this

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

I address all women, whatever their age, size or sexual orientation as " Missus", which I believe is perfectly acceptable.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Big dog seems OK,  maybe because it sounds like it's about status rather than size

[jobotic]

I like to use Chief, Friend and Old Boy.

In response I have been called Duck, Love, Cunt and Odious Creature.

I've never used Big Man, Wee Man, Shorty or Top Boy

[touchingcloth]

Yeah, your dad when he's fucking my arse.

[Blue Jam]

Big Man.

(yep)

Walkin' in the park.

[dissolute ocelot]

Many years ago I had a foreman who called me big man when he wanted me to do something. I'm sure I can make this appear sexual. He was very short.

[Buelligan]

Up in Wrexham I think they say "captain" which is REALLY shit.


Its either butt, mate or blue.

I simply cannot believe this.  Surely you have shag? 

Down south, it's practically ubiquitous.

[timebug]

My old pal Mac often gets called 'Big Mac' as an ironic pisstake of 'Big Man'. He is six feet three (in old money) and built like a proverbial brick shithouse. Our group of old codgers has been challenged before now, as to why we refer to one of our number as a reference to an American fast food chain? We point out that we don't. Mac was Mac for decades, then 'Big Mac' as a couple of shorter statured people joined our little gang of senile delinquents!

[bgmnts]

I simply cannot believe this.  Surely you have shag? 

Down south, it's practically ubiquitous.

Never heard of it but to be fair I havent talked to anyone in the social context around here for over a year.

[AllisonSays]

I do this, although it's usually reserved for expressing doubt and concern at a friend's decision-making (uch big man, you might say, while pulling your neck backwards slightly and frowning, after someone admits to stealing a photocopier from the library or leaving their partner to live on a barge). In rare instances it might be employed, ameliorated with a fresh inflection, to express joy and pleasure at seeing someone I haven't seen for a while - more like 'ahhhh big man!', in this context. I am Irish, though, so maybe we're allowed to do it being that we're not as anally retentive as the English middle-classes.

It's got nothing to do with scale, obviously, nor with gender really, I have definitely said 'uch big man' to a woman friend before. 

[phes]

I simply cannot believe this.  Surely you have shag? 

Down south, it's practically ubiquitous.

Lived on the south coast for a quarter century and have never heard this before.

Mate, mucker, mush. All the m's. Shag???

[bgmnts]

Chick as well, but that's usually exclusive to ladies.

[Buelligan]

Lived on the south coast for a quarter century and have never heard this before.

Mate, mucker, mush. All the m's. Shag???

We are talking about Wales, are we?  I'm quite prepared to accept it was just the circles I mixed in and, having googled it, it seems Americans believe it's exclusively used in this context by Cornish people not the Welsh, shag.

[kittens]

shag butt blue

[phes]

We are talking about Wales, are we?  I'm quite prepared to accept it was just the circles I mixed in and, having googled it, it seems Americans believe it's exclusively used in this context by Cornish people not the Welsh, shag.

Oh, probably my error for not following the whole thread.

Sorry me old shagger

[Better Midlands]

Big dog seems OK,  maybe because it sounds like it's about status rather than size

[Buelligan]

Absolutely indivisible.  Deary me.

[kngen]

Not as often as I've called someone wee man, but I tend to be 'big man' in these transactions (Glaswegians are, historically, 'awfy wee', to use the scientific term).

My mate, while doing a warehouse job, was called 'big stuff' by one of the drivers once - that entered our lexicon pretty quickly.

[Cardenio I]

Bud, pal, or lad.

Big Man is reserved exclusively for nephews.

[thenoise]

I tried out calling everyone 'big man' for size one night out in the late nineties. I was probably also wearing a black shirt with coloured blue flames on it, untucked and almost reaching my knees.

It didn't suit me. The shirt nor the affectation.

[sick as a pike]

When I was living in North/East London, people were 'boss', particularly in the Turkish shops.  I bridled at the lack of hierarchical distinction, but enjoyed the opportunity as 'boss' to issue P60s. I got hit a lot.

[Pingers]

When I was living in North/East London, people were 'boss', particularly in the Turkish shops.  I bridled at the lack of hierarchical distinction, but enjoyed the opportunity as 'boss' to issue P60s. I got hit a lot.

Lawlessness! Only minicab drivers and kebabmongers are allowed to use 'boss', as stipulated in the Titular Designations Act 1992

[Clatty McCutcheon]

My mate, while doing a warehouse job, was called 'big stuff' by one of the drivers once - that entered our lexicon pretty quickly.

One of the canteen ladies at a place I used to work came in one day complaining of a cramped journey to work because a 'big Oxo cube' had sat beside her on the bus.  Presumably it was a well-built, square-shouldered sort of bloke rather than an actual giant foil-wrapped stock cube.

We used that one for a while afterwards, although I probably wouldn't call someone a big Oxo cube to their face.

[Buelligan]

Not unless you were planning to take them up the tower anyway.

[Marner and Me]

Up in Wrexham I think they say "captain" which is REALLY shit.


Its either butt, mate or blue.

Fucking Bootlegger

A bloke at work used kid, alright kid

[Better Midlands]

When I was living in North/East London, people were 'boss', particularly in the Turkish shops.  I bridled at the lack of hierarchical distinction, but enjoyed the opportunity as 'boss' to issue P60s. I got hit a lot.

Bossman's popular in Turkish shops/takeaways round there.