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Johnny


Definition:

  • (n.) A familiar diminutive of John.
  • (n.) A sculpin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It trickled back to me somehow that, ‘Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!
  • (2) But we can see in five years’ time it [becoming] best practice.” Drinks giant Diageo is a major investor in sensory marketing, launching multi-sensory spaces and apps for brands including Guinness, the Singleton and Johnnie Walker.
  • (3) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
  • (4) Produced by Morrissey and Johnny Marr with Stephen Street, MIM sounds more full-blooded than anything they had previously recorded – notably Hatful of Hollow , the compilation that preceded it.
  • (5) Scotch also took a hit, with Johnnie Walker Black Label's sales down 28% in the country.
  • (6) The men's list was published in September and saw Johnny Depp on top with a staggering $75m in annual earnings.
  • (7) However, City sources said that SABMiller is likely to launch a fierce defence against a deal and could instead look to combine with Diageo , the British owner of Guinness and Johnnie Walker whisky.
  • (8) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
  • (9) There they discovered a little-known club called Amnesia and a DJ called Alfredo and instead of coming back with a few out-of-focus snaps, Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway returned home exhausted but burning with a missionary zeal.
  • (10) Others may argue, as former US Olympic skater Johnny Weir has, that what they define as “politics” shouldn’t enter into the equation of whether a country is fit to host the Games.
  • (11) Johnny Depp's dogs on death row after being 'snuck' into Australia Read more But it seems Pistol and Boo may not have had the proper paperwork when they were departing their home state of California, which could pose difficulties when they try to go back.
  • (12) Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius's OSS 117 films, Mike Myers's Austin Powers movies and Rowan Atkinson's pair of Johnny English efforts are some of the more recent entries.
  • (13) He’s not the first Tory MP to speak out about the problem of housing yourself while rich: Johnny Mercer told the Telegraph that he was so incensed by the cost of London property that he brought his family boat up from the south coast, moored it in east London, and stays there several nights a week.
  • (14) He was thought to be the forerunner for The Tonight Show after Johnny Carson retired in 1992.
  • (15) Morrissey: "We've had a great deal of personal support from the people at the Hacienda when they could easily have ignored us for signing with Rough Trade in London rather than Factory in Manchester and that's good because, as Johnny says, that means attitudes are at last changing."
  • (16) After illegally bringing his two dogs to Australia, Johnny Depp could face up to 10 years behind bars.
  • (17) It is being billed as a reunion for the team behind the multi-billion dollar Pirates of the Caribbean film series – star Johnny Depp , producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski.
  • (18) Johnny: "The reason why Morrissey and I got together in the first place to write songs – and the reason why it was so successful – was because we both felt the need to react against what we'd been hearing over the past X years.
  • (19) Ferguson faces competition from a wide variety of contenders to fill the shoes of Letterman and his predecessor, Johnny Carson.
  • (20) Richard Boggis-Rolfe, chief executive of Odgers Berndtson, said: "I have accepted Johnny's resignation as an adviser with regret.

Nickname


Definition:

  • (n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
  • (v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
  • (2) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
  • (3) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
  • (4) Now 7, Jackson said the boy, nicknamed Blanket as a baby, was his biological child born from a surrogate mother.
  • (5) In the original exchange, Scudamore warned Nick West, a City lawyer who works with the Premier League on broadcasting deals, to keep a female colleague they nicknamed Edna “off your shaft”.
  • (6) The Tories will try to stick him with the nickname 'Bottler Brown'.
  • (7) Barra’s main rivals in the single-speed category were Willo and a rider nicknamed Neu York, representing the Gorilla Smash Squad.
  • (8) Nicknamed Mr 10 Percent, Zardari spent several years in prison under previous administrations.
  • (9) But as Brigitte goes on to explain, Bordeaux laboured for decades under the nickname La Belle Endormie – sleeping beauty.
  • (10) Across town in Le Central restaurant, nicknamed Hollande's canteen, the atmosphere is jovial.
  • (11) His deputy, Dokuchayev, is believed to be a well-known Russian hacker who went by the nickname Forb, and began working for the FSB some years ago to evade jail for his hacking activities.
  • (12) Nicknamed “Mr Padre”, the left-hander had a 20-year career in Major League Baseball , all of it with San Diego.
  • (13) Burns' ability to ride out a storm earned him the nickname "Teflon Terry".
  • (14) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
  • (15) The best-known editions are the military versions covered in red plastic and shrunk to fit the pocket of an army uniform – hence the book's nickname in the west.
  • (16) When the old BBC governors – a system of governance that essentially dated back to 1922 – was dismantled in 2006 the outcry that there might be something quickly nicknamed Ofbeeb was deafening.
  • (17) Even the nickname given to him of Monsieur Flanby, after a caramel pudding, over his perceived wobbly political views, lost its relevance as he elaborated his programme.
  • (18) Since becoming Denmark's first female prime minister two years ago, Thorning-Schmidt has had to contend with the media nickname of "Gucci Helle", so called because of her fondness for designer clothes.
  • (19) Xinhua, Beijing’s official news service, said Micius, a 600kg satellite that is nicknamed after an ancient Chinese philosopher, “roared into the dark sky” over the Gobi desert at 1.40am local time on Tuesday, carried by a Long March-2D rocket.
  • (20) While it was always possible to wash down the superb Rhodesian beef with fine Portuguese and South African wines at several hotels, Salisbury had difficulty living up to its nickname of Surbiton in the Bush.

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