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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Doughface :: Doughface (n.) A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded..
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..
Copperhead :: Copperhead (n.) A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
Greaser :: Greaser (n.) A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type.
Locofoco :: Locofoco (n.) A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party.
Wolverine :: Wolverine (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan.
Cracker :: Cracker (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
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..
Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.
Hoosier :: Hoosier (n.) A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana.
Byname :: Byname (v. t.) To give a nickname to.
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..
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..
Suckered :: Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
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..
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..
Nickname :: Nickname (n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation..
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