Definition of nickname

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Nickname (n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation..

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Yankee :: Yankee (n.) A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States..
Copperhead :: Copperhead (n.) A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
Hunker :: Hunker (n.) Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy..
Suckered :: Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..
Cracker :: Cracker (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
Ekename :: Ekename (n.) An additional or epithet name; a nickname.
Dago :: Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent..
Sandhiller :: Sandhiller (n.) A nickname given to any poor white living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina..
Nicknamed :: Nicknamed (imp. & p. p.) of Nicknam.
Hoosier :: Hoosier (n.) A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana.
Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To nickname; to style.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John..
Granite State :: Granite State () New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite..
Nickname :: Nickname (v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
Roundhead :: Roundhead (n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction..
Greaser :: Greaser (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.
Bluenose :: Bluenose (n.) A nickname for a Nova Scotian.
Wolverine :: Wolverine (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan.
Nickname :: Nickname (n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation..
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