sobriquet

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  1. noun An affectionate or humorous nickname.
  2. noun An assumed name.

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  • One member of the club, who asked not to be named, said that the sobriquet was a way of —  British Blogs
  • Family names, we must recollect, are but inherited nicknames; and if the sobriquet were applicable to the ancestor, it is most likely applicable to the descendant also. —  Lay Morals
  • 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. —  Laramie Holds the Range
  • Consequently a sobriquet was attached to O'Brien of which he by no means approved, and from that day we always called Mrs. Talboys —  Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners)
  • Having made these preliminary arrangements, Buzzing Ben -- for the sobriquet was applied to him in this form quite as often as in the other -- next turned his attention to the velvet-like covering of the grassy glade. —  Oak Openings
 

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  1. French, from Old French soubriquet, chuck under the chin.

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  1. Also soubriquet; from French sobriquet, formerly soubriquet, sotbriquet, a surname, nickname, formerly also a jest, quip; prob. a transferred use of Old French soubriquet, soubzbriquet, a chuck under the chin, from sous, soubz (French sous) (from Latin sub), under, + briquet, brichet, bruchet, bruschet, French brechet, the breast, throat, brisket: see sub- and brisket.
 

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/soʊbriˈkeɪ/
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