Nickname
21nickname — nick|name1 [ nık,neım ] noun count * an informal name that your friends or family call you that is not your real name nickname nick|name 2 [ nık,neım ] verb transitive to give someone a nickname: They nicknamed her the Squirrel …
22nickname — [14] A nickname is etymologically an ‘additional name’. The word was originally ekename, whose eke ‘addition’ was a derivative of the verb eke (as in ‘eke out’). But by the 15th century an ekename was becoming misinterpreted as a nekename – hence …
23nickname — n 1. sobriquet, agnomen, cognomen, byname, moniker, handle; familiar name, pet name, diminutive, epithet, Chiefly Scot. to name. v 2. give a nickname to, call by a nickname. 3. miscall, misname, call by a wrong name …
24nickname — [ˈnɪkˌneɪm] noun [C] I an informal name that your friends or family call you that is not your real name II verb [T] nickname [ˈnɪkˌneɪm] to give someone a nickname …
25nickname — [14] A nickname is etymologically an ‘additional name’. The word was originally ekename, whose eke ‘addition’ was a derivative of the verb eke (as in ‘eke out’). But by the 15th century an ekename was becoming misinterpreted as a nekename – hence …
26nickname — n. & v. n. a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name. v.tr. 1 give a nickname to. 2 call (a person or thing) by a nickname. Etymology: ME f. eke name, with n from an (cf. NEWT): eke = addition,… …
27nickname — I. noun Etymology: Middle English nekename additional name, alteration (resulting from misdivision of an ekename) of ekename, from eke eke, also + name name Date: 15th century 1. a usually descriptive name given instead of or in addition to the… …
28nickname — 1. noun /nɪkneɪm/ a) A familiar, invented given name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing. b) A kind of byname that describes a person by a characteristic of that person. Syn: handle, hypocoristic …
29Nickname — Der Nick(name) ist die Bezeichnung für den Namen, unter dem ein Benutzer in Foren, Chats, News und anderen Bereichen registriert ist. Der Nickname kann sowohl ein echter Name als auch ein frei erfundener Name oder Begriff sein. Chat, Newsgroup …
30nickname — noun a familiar or humorous name for a person or thing. verb give a nickname to. Origin ME: from an eke name (eke meaning addition : see eke2), misinterpreted (by wrong division) as a neke name …
