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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Greaser :: Greaser (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John..
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..
Bluenose :: Bluenose (n.) A nickname for a Nova Scotian.
Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..
Monarcho :: Monarcho (n.) The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor.
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..
Ekename :: Ekename (n.) An additional or epithet name; a nickname.
Nickname :: Nickname (n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation..
Bobby :: Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler..
Suckered :: Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
Sawbones :: Sawbones (n.) A nickname for a surgeon.
Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To nickname; to style.
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.
Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.
Locofoco :: Locofoco (n.) A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party.
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..
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..
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