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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Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..
Roundhead :: Roundhead (n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction..
Dago :: Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent..
Doughface :: Doughface (n.) A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded..
Ekename :: Ekename (n.) An additional or epithet name; a nickname.
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..
By-name :: By-name (n.) A nickname.
Nickname :: Nickname (v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
Turlupin :: Turlupin (n.) One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc..
Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.
Hoosier :: Hoosier (n.) A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana.
Locofoco :: Locofoco (n.) A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party.
Campbellite :: Campbellite (n.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3..
Byname :: Byname (v. t.) To give a nickname to.
Cracker :: Cracker (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
Wolverine :: Wolverine (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan.
Sobriquet :: Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
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..
Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To nickname; to style.
Greaser :: Greaser (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.
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