nickname

nickname
nicknamer, n.
/nik"naym'/, n., v., nicknamed, nicknaming.
n.
1. a name added to or substituted for the proper name of a person, place, etc., as in affection, ridicule, or familiarity: He has always loathed his nickname of "Whizzer."
2. a familiar form of a proper name, as Jim for James and Peg for Margaret.
v.t.
3. to give a nickname to (a person, town, etc.); call by a nickname.
4. Archaic. to call by an incorrect or improper name; misname.
[1400-50; late ME nekename, for ekename (the phrase an ekename being taken as a nekename). See EKE2, NAME; cf. NEWT]

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