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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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By-name :: By-name (n.) A nickname.

Dago :: Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent..

Nickname :: Nickname (v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.

Peeler :: Peeler (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.

Turlupin :: Turlupin (n.) One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc..

Granite State :: Granite State () New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite..

Sobriquet :: Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.

Sawbones :: Sawbones (n.) A nickname for a surgeon.

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..

Bobby :: Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler..

Greaser :: Greaser (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.

Doughface :: Doughface (n.) A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded..

Scab :: Scab (n.) A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike..

Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.

Cracker :: Cracker (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.

Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To nickname; to style.

Bluenose :: Bluenose (n.) A nickname for a Nova Scotian.

Monarcho :: Monarcho (n.) The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John..

Nicknamed :: Nicknamed (imp. & p. p.) of Nicknam.