nickname

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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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  • Though the nickname was almost universally employed by the officers of the department, and Rueben had come to accept it over the years, it had a particularly demeaning ring this morning. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2005
  • The first-floor storage officer was “Army Sergeant.” Anyone who didn't recognize this nickname was an imposter in the department. —  EQMM,May2008
  • Mostly, however, the nickname was avoided because Lucas didn't think of himself as a gambler. —  Phule's Paradise by Robert Asprin
  • I've grown up since then and I don't believe the nickname is appropriate now. —  Garwood, Julie - Castles
  • “Back in the space fleet my nickname was the Corpse, because I always look this way Look, I'm counting on you,” Vasily said, leaning over earnestly, speaking low. —  FSF,August2008
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epithet ·  appellation ·  caricature ·  parody ·  saying ·  allusion ·  joke ·  antics ·  prank ·  chuckle ·  anecdote ·  grimace

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nickname:   nicknames ·  nicknamed
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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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