nickname 的 2 个定义
- a name added to or substituted for the proper name of a person, place, etc., as in affection, ridicule, or familiarity: He has always loathed his nickname of “Whizzer.”
- a familiar form of a proper name, as Jim for James and Peg for Margaret.
nick·named, nick·nam·ing.
- to give a nickname to; call by a nickname.
- Archaic. to call by an incorrect or improper name; misname.
nickname 近义词
informal title
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- India is known as “the pharmacy of the world,” and the nickname is well-deserved.
- I would tell people that my name was Tammy, which is funny, because while they actually gave me that nickname in not such a flattering way, but I hated that I had a boy’s name, but now it makes me different and so I love it.
- This, of course, is applicable for Gear Moms and nonparents, too—I just invented this hack, and Gear Dad is my nickname at the Outside offices.
- Some cities like Escondido, Rancho Peñasquitos and Santee have derogatory or naughty nicknames, but “Border City” is not – and has not ever been – a thing.
- She gives Charlie not only a gorgeous sweater and other swag but the inimitable nicknames “cockring” and “stepson.”
- Her style, much like her diminutive nickname, is best described as “Hamptons twee”—preppy and peppy.
- My nickname was Captain, though I was a private, first class.
- All would attest to the manifest goodness that inspired the perfect nickname for the boy who would become a perfect cop.
- In Vietnam, Lewis was advisor to a Vietnamese infantry unit, whose nickname for him was “Captain of Many Kilos.”
- His nickname, given to him at the Battle of Gettysburg and which he kept for the rest of his life, was Stonewall Jim.
- This last appellation was but a nickname of the tribe, which was properly called Wendot or Wyandot.
- A correspondent writes to The Times to object to the nickname "Tommies" applied to our soldiers.
- His name and his bright past, seen through the prism of whispered gossip, had gained him the nickname of The Admiral.
- He was given the nickname of Malagrida, a Portuguese Jesuit who had been executed for conspiracy in 1761.
- But in ordinary families it was quite natural that a nickname applied to the father should become a surname.