I work a temp job sometimes, at a factory and I was working a line last night.
A woman I never saw before came up and introduced herself. She said, “They told me to stand over here with you guys. By the way my name is Mary but everyone calls me Peaches.” They other guy on the line with me, laughs and says “That’s a name for a stripper.”
Of course it was all good natured and Peaches laughed and didn’t take offense. But I I never thought Peaches would be a name for a stripper.
What do you think? Is Peaches a name (or nickname) for a stripper?
I wouldn’t say it’s a stripper name exactly, but it could be considered at least marginally “sexy”. The closest comparison I can think of is “Sugar” as a nickname. It might be a cute nickname given to a girl when she’s young, it might be a Southernism, it might be ironic, or it might have some sexual connotation of the “Hey, give me some sugar!” or “Shake those peaches!” variety. Depends on the person. As a “sexy” name it seems pretty old-fashioned, though. A stripper today who wanted to have a suggestive name would probably go with something a lot more obvious than “Peaches”.
There is also a musician called Peaches whose material is quite in-your-face and explicit (one of her best-known songs is called “Fuck the Pain Away”). Wikipedia tells me Peaches takes her name from the Nina Simone song “Four Women”, which I was also going to mention as a pop culture example of a woman named Peaches. She’s the 4th woman in the song, and is a tough, angry type. The last line of the song is this character shouting “My name is Peaches!”
I don’t think of it as a stripper name. I’ve known three Peaches; two were black girls and it was their given name. This was high school but I can’t imagine either becoming a stripper. The other was a white boy and it was a nickname (I have no idea what his real name was) his mother gave him at birth, because he was premature and born with a thick coat of lanugo (peach fuzz!).
Amber, Krystal, Candy, Jasmine, Nikki, and Destiny are stripper names to me. Most strippers go by trendy ultra-femme names, not by silly ones.
I’d say it’s a possible stripper name . . . or the name of an obese woman trying to give herself an air of sweetness and delicacy . . . or the name of a middle-aged woman trying to give herself an air of sweetness and youth . . . or a curvy drag queen.
We have a mutt named Peaches, too, although, I’m pretty sure we aren’t FairyChatMom’s previously mentioned good friends. It’s not all that uncommon of a dog name.
