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Nickname :: Nickname (n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation..

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

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

Roundhead :: Roundhead (n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction..

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..

Sawbones :: Sawbones (n.) A nickname for a surgeon.

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

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

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

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..

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

Cracker :: Cracker (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.

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

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..

Nickname :: Nickname (v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.

Sobriquet :: Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.

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

Dago :: Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent..

Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.

Wolverine :: Wolverine (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan.

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