Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An affectionate or humorous nickname.
- n. An assumed name.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A nickname; a fanciful appellation.
Wiktionary
- n. A familiar name for a person (typically a shortened version of a person’s given name).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
Etymologies
- From French sobriquet ("nickname"), from Middle French soubriquet ("a chuck under the chin"). (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French soubriquet, chuck under the chin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Whereas my other contact has focused on the Shan tribes near the Chinese border, the Father of the White Monkey — the sobriquet comes from the nickname he has given his daughter, who often travels with him — works mostly with the Karen and other tribes in eastern Burma abutting Thailand, though the networks he operates have ranged as far as the Indian border.”
“We all know that the sobriquet is obsolete, but did one expect the Senate Majority Leader ever to say, in effect, that Senators are a collection of potted plants whose participation is unimportant to dealing with an “unprecedented financial crisis”?”
“It was Fuentes who coined the sobriquet "My Queen," Avila Beltrán told authorities after her arrest; the Mexican cop used his proceeds from the drug trade to send his wife on clothing and jewelry shopping sprees in Paris and the United States and to buy her seafront condominiums in Puerto Vallarta and other Pacific Coast resort towns.”
“A sobriquet is a descriptive appellation, like Governor Jesse [the Body] Ventura, which geezers will fondly recall followed, by two generations, Marie [the Body] McDonald.”
“In a country where the sobriquet is usually the only name by which it is courteous or safe to address a man, and where it is invariably apt, few men are accorded two.”
“One member of the club, who asked not to be named, said that the sobriquet was a way of”
“I think that's truly a french-canadian name...and it derives from a french "sobriquet".”
“The eldest of the Amhas-draoi—a man who’d introduced himself with the one-word sobriquet Garrick—barely flickered an eyelid.”
“By his story of the Frog he scaled the heights of popularity at a single jump and won for himself the 'sobriquet' of”
“By his story of the Frog he scaled the heights of popularity at a single jump and won for himself the 'sobriquet' of The”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sobriquet’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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Naresh_Gre2
convoke, cosset, coterie, declaim, distaff, doff, dovetail, droll, dyspeptic, egress, ersatz, euphemism and 108 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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Tricky To Spell or Pronounce
ply, stationary, stationery, monetize, finagle, cartilaginous, apposite, languor, douceur, Umwelt, faze, sequela and 13 more...
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Words About Words
code-switching, amphiboly, hermeneutics, echolalia, boustrophedon, logorrhea, trope, harangue, shibboleth, rhotic, susurrous, metonymy and 6 more...
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just neat
insolent, redolent, clammy, chunder, berate, vainqueur, neotony, milquetoast, semprini, twaddle, plethora, enteron and 29 more...
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Bright Folk
Some words I come across in my legal studies, though not really legal jargon. And the usage doesn't shout, "hey, I think I'm smart", just simply, "this is what applies in this context."
verbose, inter alia, ostentatious, usurp, presumptuous, anachronistic, unfettered, sine qua non, amenable, subversive, irreducible, penumbra and 28 more...
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A Name
Nouns meaning a name
nomen, binomen, cognomen, appellation, epithet, agnomen, designation, surname, alias, autonym, eponym, anonym and 18 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1901 more...
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My GRE Vocab
moniker, sobriquet, prerogative, aberration, aberrant, nuance, notorious, infamous, renown, allude, refer, content and 109 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sobriquet.
Prolagus According to the Wordnik charts, jmp is right (except for very recent times). Unless he was referring to charcoal bricks. Dec 13, 2010
ruzuzu Ay, sí. Ah, oui. Monkey. Mar 11, 2010
bilby I see.
I made that rhyme with say, by the way. Wheee! See? Mar 11, 2010
ruzuzu When you're wearing gold lamé, you can make monkey rhyme with whatever you like. Mar 11, 2010
bilby Does monkey rhyme with sobriquet? Mar 11, 2010
ruzuzu "Hip-shakin' shoutin' in gold lamé
That's how he earned his regal sobriquet
Then he threw it all away
For a porcelain monkey.
He threw it away for a porcelain monkey
Gave it all up for a figurine
He traded it in for a night in Las Vegas
And his face on velveteen."
From "Porcelain Monkey," a song about Elvis Presley, by Warren Zevon. Mar 11, 2010
sionnach I once knew a soubrette whose sobriquet was mata hari. Or maybe she was a vedette. Either way, that was her etiquette. Aug 13, 2009
sobriquet As for the Deerslayer, under the sobriquet of Hawkeye, he made his fame spread far and near, until the crack of his rifle became as terrible to the ears of the Mingos, as the thunders of the Manitou.
-James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer Aug 13, 2009
shevek I won't change my old mumpsimus for your new sobriquet! Jul 20, 2008
johnmperry It's usually soubriquet in my house! Jul 20, 2008
sionnach jmp: On what basis do you say it's "usually soubriquet"?
Google yields 379,000 hits for "sobriquet" (which Wikipedia says is the correct French spelling), and just under 65,000 hits for "soubriquet".
Perhaps you are thinking of the word soubrette? Jul 20, 2008
johnmperry usually soubriquet Jul 20, 2008
reesetee Joking, rmavis. But thanks. :-) Nov 7, 2007
rmavis they're called briquettes! Very close. Nov 7, 2007
reesetee Yeah, what are they called...? ;-> Sep 19, 2007
kad me too! Sep 19, 2007
reesetee This word always reminds me of those little charcoal bricks you use to barbecue. Sep 19, 2007