NICKNAME

n. v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.

2.
v.

To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname. You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke. Shak. I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the doctrine of finality. Macaulay.

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