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

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

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

Suckered :: Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.

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..

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..

Hoosier :: Hoosier (n.) A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana.

Ekename :: Ekename (n.) An additional or epithet name; 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.

Byname :: Byname (v. t.) To give a nickname to.

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

Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..

Locofoco :: Locofoco (n.) A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party.

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

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

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

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..

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

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