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The Ecuadorean's nickname translates as "street dog", but Benitez's display was that of a striker intent on being top dog by the time McLeish uses Carson Yeung's cash to bolster Birmingham's squad.

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  1. noun A descriptive name added to or replacing the actual name of a person, place, or thing.
  2. noun A familiar or shortened form of a proper name.
  3. transitive verb To give a nickname to.
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  • Two more men were limping and one of them staggered, reeled and finally collapsed. —  Sharpe's Tiger
  • His real fore-names, written over the pub doorway, were John James, but his nickname was a pudding. —  Twice shy
  • The Ecuadorean's nickname translates as "street dog", but Benitez's display was that of a striker intent on being top dog by the time McLeish uses Carson Yeung's cash to bolster Birmingham's squad. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • His nickname is Spanish for "cinnamon blond" because of his red hair and light skin color.
  • a nickname is a minor injury that wards off more serious harm. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
 

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epithet ·  appellation ·  caricature ·  parody ·  saying ·  allusion ·  joke ·  antics ·  prank ·  chuckle ·  anecdote ·  grimace
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English neke name, from a neke name, alteration of an eke name : eke, addition (from Old English ēaca; see aug- in Indo-European roots) + name, name; see name.

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  1. from Middle English nekename, properly ekename (an ekename being misdivided a nekename) (= Icelandic auknefni = Swedish öknamn = Danish ögenavn; also =Low German eket-, eker-name = Dutch oekername (corrupt forms), Low German also as verb, nicknamen; prob. after English); from eke + name. In the F. nom de nique, a nickname, nique is apparently from German nicker, nod: see nick.
  2. from nickname, n.
 

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/ˈnɪkneɪm/
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