(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.
Pseudonym
Definition:
(n.) A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name.
Example Sentences:
(1) In case you've managed to avoid gatherings where it's been discussed (which is a long shot, but perhaps your friends are hard, angry, silent drinkers, in which case, you've got lucky), this involves combining the name of your first pet with your mother's maiden name to create the pseudonym you'd use if you were a porn star.
(2) Her celebrated experiment with a pseudonym as a demonstration of the hurdles facing unknown writers being just one example.
(3) The Long Walk is one of the famed "Bachman Books" , novels that King wrote before he was published in his own name, and that were only published (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) in the wake of the success of Salem's Lot .
(4) Pseudonyms are used instead of the participants' names.
(5) When he discovered his phone had been tapped, Sarkozy allegedly obtained another phone under the pseudonym Paul Bismuth, to talk to his lawyer.
(6) In reality, the only harm that could ever come the way of these pseudonymous CIA agents would be in the form of more lawsuits from victims, given that the Justice Department gave up trying to prosecute any of them, and the White House gave up on even a modicum of accountability a while ago.
(7) According to Croatia's Zagreb newspaper Jutarnji List, Mladic had been living under the pseudonym Milorad Komadic.
(8) Bhagwan Chowdhry, a professor of finance at UCLA, last month suggested nominating Nakamoto for the 2016 Nobel prize in economics in recognition of his innovation, but Nakamoto’s pseudonymous identity meant he was ineligible.
(9) Mohammad Moslawi is the pseudonym of an Iraqi journalist working in Mosul
(10) Shortly afterwards, under a pseudonym, the informant admitted 20 serious offences and asked for 31 more to be taken into consideration.
(11) When asked what his plans are, he smiles and says: “I am getting married in April.” • Dani Patteran is a pseudonym
(12) Theresa May should be able to exercise sensible border control and stop him holding these seminars in our country.” The Change.org petition, drawn up by a city worker using the pseudonym Caroline Charles to protect herself from abuse, says Blanc and his association Real Social Dynamics (RSD) promote “sexist, racist and criminal approaches to women”.
(13) Now he lives in a safe house run by a Honduran charity, and asked only to be identified with a pseudonym.
(14) Next month, the former leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, often known by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, will make his political comeback by fronting the relaunch of the UK arm of Pegida, the German anti-Islam organisation whose provocative rhetoric has prompted attacks on refugees .
(15) Elizabeth Sigmund was a friend of Sylvia Plath's and, along with her husband David, a dedicatee of The Bell Jar when Plath first published it under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas.
(16) One of which he is particularly proud is from Becky Hope, the pseudonym of a social worker whose memoir All in a Day's Work chronicles her years in child protection.
(17) Faith films may not be critically credible, yet, but some of the same people work on them, pseudonymously, as do on hipper indie movies.
(18) Three polyphosphorylated dinucleosides given the pseudonyms of HS3, HS2, and HS1 that were erroneously described as diguanosine polyphosphates (LéJohn, H. B., Cameron, L. E., McNaughton, D. R. & Klassen, G. R. (1975) Biochem, Biophys, Res, Commun.
(19) The biggest fight seems to be over the CIA’s efforts to black out the pseudonyms of CIA agents used in the report.
(20) By this time, he had begun to publish, at first pseudonymously, articles and reviews which, among other things, did much to draw attention to the burgeoning Soviet school of English 17th-century studies.