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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Turlupin :: Turlupin (n.) One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc..
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..
Bluenose :: Bluenose (n.) A nickname for a Nova Scotian.
Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.
Nickname :: Nickname (v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
Ekename :: Ekename (n.) An additional or epithet name; a nickname.
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..
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..
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..
Monarcho :: Monarcho (n.) The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor.
Byname :: Byname (v. t.) To give a nickname to.
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..
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..
Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To nickname; to style.
Locofoco :: Locofoco (n.) A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party.
Nicknamed :: Nicknamed (imp. & p. p.) of Nicknam.
Cracker :: Cracker (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
Granite State :: Granite State () New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite..
By-name :: By-name (n.) A nickname.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John..
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