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Definition of sobriquets in English English dictionary
- plural of sobriquet
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- A familiar name for a person (typically a shortened version of a person’s given name)
The sobriquet of Johnny Appleseed attached to him, though his real name was Chapman, in consequence of his being ever engaged in gathering and planting appleseed and cultivating nurseries of apple trees.
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- {i} nickname; assumed name
- sobriquet
- An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname
- sobriquet
- 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"
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- A sobriquet is a humorous name that people give someone or something. From his staff he earned the sobriquet `Mumbles'. an unofficial title or name = nickname
- sobriquet
- a familiar name for a person (typically a shortened version of a person's given name)