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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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..
Ekename :: Ekename (n.) An additional or epithet name; a nickname.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John..
Sobriquet :: Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
Bluenose :: Bluenose (n.) A nickname for a Nova Scotian.
Byname :: Byname (v. t.) To give a nickname to.
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..
By-name :: By-name (n.) A nickname.
Greaser :: Greaser (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.
Peeler :: Peeler (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
Suckered :: Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
Bobby :: Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler..
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..
Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To nickname; to style.
Copperhead :: Copperhead (n.) A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
Granite State :: Granite State () New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite..
Sawbones :: Sawbones (n.) A nickname for a surgeon.
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..
Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..
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