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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Nickname :: Nickname (v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
Stercorarian :: Stercoranist (n.) A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient..
Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John..
Copperhead :: Copperhead (n.) A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
Bobby :: Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler..
Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..
Bluenose :: Bluenose (n.) A nickname for a Nova Scotian.
Nickname :: Nickname (n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation..
Roundhead :: Roundhead (n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction..
Peeler :: Peeler (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
Monarcho :: Monarcho (n.) The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor.
By-name :: By-name (n.) A nickname.
Sawbones :: Sawbones (n.) A nickname for a surgeon.
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..
Wolverine :: Wolverine (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan.
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..
Sobriquet :: Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To nickname; to style.
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