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Nickname

noun

A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name). Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet. "Henry's nickname was Slim"

A descriptive name for a place or thing.

verb

(past & past part. nicknamed; pres. part. nicknaming)

Give a nickname to. Synonym: dub.

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"Nickname" Quotes from Famous Books

... I'Mally, and offered her services unto me wheresoever I would command her, with three galleys and two hundred fighting men. She brought with her her husband, for she was as well by sea as by land more than master's-mate with him. He was of the nether Burkes, and called by nickname Richard in Iron. This was a notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland. This woman did Philip Sidney see and speak with; he can more at large inform you of her." Grana, or Grace O'Malley, was the daughter ...

— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack

... up, and a second summons had no effect. In fact the nickname Taff had a bad effect upon Arthur Temple, causing a sort of deafness that was only ...

— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn

... plays, all pub. posthumously, include Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Alphonsus, King of Aragon, and George-a-Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield. His tales are written under the influence of Lyly, whence he received from Gabriel Harvey the nickname ...

— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin

... and in 1802, another in the army of the interior. He then became one of the most assiduous and cringing courtiers at the Emperor's levies; while in the Empress's drawing-room he assumed his former air and ton of a chevalier, in hopes of imposing upon those who did not remember the nickname which his soldiers gave him ten years before, of Chevalier ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... with a most ingenious knack of doing everything the wrong way. "Handy" Andy was the nickname the neighbours stuck on him, and the poor simple-minded lad liked the jeering jingle. Even Mrs. Rooney, who thought that her boy was "the sweetest craythur the cun shines on," preferred to hear him called "Handy Andy" ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various

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