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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Peeler :: Peeler (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To nickname; to style.
Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.
By-name :: By-name (n.) A nickname.
Nicknamed :: Nicknamed (imp. & p. p.) of Nicknam.
Roundhead :: Roundhead (n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction..
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..
Monarcho :: Monarcho (n.) The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor.
Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..
Sawbones :: Sawbones (n.) A nickname for a surgeon.
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..
Turlupin :: Turlupin (n.) One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc..
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..
Greaser :: Greaser (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.
Suckered :: Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
Hoosier :: Hoosier (n.) A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana.
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.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John..
Dago :: Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent..
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