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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Granite State :: Granite State () New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite..
Peeler :: Peeler (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
Doughface :: Doughface (n.) A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded..
Suckered :: Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
Greaser :: Greaser (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.
Turlupin :: Turlupin (n.) One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc..
Roundhead :: Roundhead (n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction..
By-name :: By-name (n.) A nickname.
Bluenose :: Bluenose (n.) A nickname for a Nova Scotian.
Nickname :: Nickname (v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
Sawbones :: Sawbones (n.) A nickname for a surgeon.
Byname :: Byname (v. t.) To give a nickname to.
Nickname :: Nickname (n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation..
Dago :: Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent..
Ekename :: Ekename (n.) An additional or epithet name; a nickname.
Wolverine :: Wolverine (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan.
Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To nickname; to style.
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..
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..
Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.
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