Eliza Doolittle speaks of this as a transferred name to be used for a stranger in Pygmalion, by G.B.Shaw: ‘I called him Freddy or Charlie same as you might yourself if you was talking to a stranger and wished to be pleasant.’ This use of a...

Freddy or Freddie may refer to: Freddy (weather), a cartoon weatherman in Hong Kong Freddy the Pig, a character in a series of children's books written by Walter R. Brooks The Freddy, a 1960s dance craze Freddy (singer) (Fredesvinda García), Cuban...