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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Nickname :: Nickname (n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation..
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..
Ekename :: Ekename (n.) An additional or epithet name; a nickname.
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.
Greaser :: Greaser (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.
Granite State :: Granite State () New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite..
Turlupin :: Turlupin (n.) One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc..
Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.
Nicknamed :: Nicknamed (imp. & p. p.) of Nicknam.
Sobriquet :: Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
Roundhead :: Roundhead (n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction..
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..
Monarcho :: Monarcho (n.) The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor.
Bobby :: Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler..
Hoosier :: Hoosier (n.) A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana.
Wolverine :: Wolverine (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan.
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John..
Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..
Bluenose :: Bluenose (n.) A nickname for a Nova Scotian.
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