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- noun Plural form of
nicknamer .
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Examples
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[24] Officially the ponies were named after the several schools which had subscribed for their purchase: but sailors are inveterate nicknamers, and the unofficial humour prevailed.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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"the ladies 'man" had worn the grass off all the plain and the zest of novelty out of all his nicknamers, daily hammering -- he and his only less merciful lieutenants -- at their everlasting drill.
Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884
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