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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname]

Merriam Webster's

also soubriquet noun Etymology: French Date: 1646 a descriptive name or epithet ; nickname

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also soubriquet) 1 a nickname. 2 an assumed name. Etymology: F, orig. = 'tap under the chin'

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also soubriquet(sobriquets) A sobriquet is a humorous name that people give someone or something. (WRITTEN) From his staff he earned the sobriquet 'Mumbles'. N-COUNT: usu sing

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. [Fr.] Nickname, by-name, fanciful appellation.