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sobriquet
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sobriquet has 1 sense
- sobriquet(n = noun.communication) byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, soubriquet - a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" is a kind of appellation, appellative, denomination, designation
CIDE DICTIONARY
sobriquet, n. [F. sobriquet, OF. soubzbriquet, soubriquet, a chuck under the chin, hence, an affront, a nickname; of uncertain origin; cf. It. sottobecco a chuck under the chin.].
An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sobriquet, n. (also soubriquet)
1 a nickname.
2 an assumed name.
1 a nickname.
2 an assumed name.
Etymology
F, orig. = 'tap under the chin'
ROGET THESAURUS
sobriquet
Misnomer
N misnomer, lucus a non lucendo, Mrs, Malaprop, what d'ye call 'em, Hoosier, nickname, sobriquet, by-name, assumed name, assumed title, alias, nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume, pseudonym, pseudonymy, misnamed, pseudonymous, soi-disant, self called, self styled, self christened, so-called, nameless, anonymous, without a having no name, innominate, unnamed, unacknowledged, in no sense.
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