Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sobriquet"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sobriquet \So`bri`quet"\ (s[-o]`br[-e]`k[asl]"), 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. [Sometimes less correctly written {soubriquet}.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sobriquet
n : a familiar name (often a shortened version of a person's
given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and
always called him Joseph" [syn: {nickname}, {moniker}, {cognomen},
{soubriquet}]
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