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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Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To nickname; to style.
Nickname :: Nickname (n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation..
Byname :: Byname (v. t.) To give a nickname to.
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..
Nicknamed :: Nicknamed (imp. & p. p.) of Nicknam.
Granite State :: Granite State () New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite..
Bobby :: Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler..
Suckered :: Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
Ekename :: Ekename (n.) An additional or epithet name; a nickname.
Locofoco :: Locofoco (n.) A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party.
Greaser :: Greaser (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.
Sawbones :: Sawbones (n.) A nickname for a surgeon.
Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..
Jack :: "Jack (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John..
Dago :: Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent..
Monarcho :: Monarcho (n.) The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor.
Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.
Wolverine :: Wolverine (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan.
Sobriquet :: Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
Copperhead :: Copperhead (n.) A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
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