When your name is
Ashley and you prefer people call you Shlee for many reasons (i.e. You used to hate the nicknames people gave you like Ashtray, Ashtard, ash hole, or dumbash. You were
sick of the shortened name "
Ash" especially when others around you had the same or similar names - like Ashten,
Asher,
Ashlynn, etc - because someone would say "hey
Ash" and multiple people would respond only to realize someone you don't even know wasn't talking to you and it just feels awkward. Or when a
teacher or anyone really would say "actually" and you were not fully attentive so you respond loudly "what" only to realize no one was talking to you at all so you just look
dumb. So one day your little sister starts calling you shlee and you hate it at first but then it just somehow fits or maybe your sister just forcibly made everyone call you shlee and it grows on everyone and you accept it because at least no more "
ash" related nicknames or humiliating moments will happen. And now everyone has made their own shlee nicknames for you like shleezball, Shleezbag, shleebuh, shleebee, shleeezy, shleeshlong, shleepee, shleezer, shleez, shayyyyyleeeeeee, shleeshloo, shleethead, shleester, shleenerdawg...or started saying "That's what - shlee - said" instead of "she" like the
popular idiom from Wayne's world...so now you were most popularly called Ashtray as a child and became shleeziest shleezbag anyone has ever known.