Nickname
A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
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Nickname Quotations
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
Thomas Paine
My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.
Satchel Paige
John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
John Legend
Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
Alan Alda
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
William Hazlitt
My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.
James Franco
Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.
Carrot Top
I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname.
Dick Lane
You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.
Richard Roeper
When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.
Joaquin Phoenix
Nickname Translations
nickname in French is surnom
nickname in German is Spitzname
nickname in Italian is nomignolo
nickname in Spanish is apodo
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