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‖ sobriquet, n.
(ˈsəʊbrɪkeɪ, ‖ sɔbrikɛ)
See also soubriquet.
[F., of uncertain origin.]
An epithet, a nickname.
1646Buck Rich. III, i. 4 It is controverted amongst the Antiquaries and Heralds, which Earle of Anjou first bare the Sirname and Sobriquet of Plantagenest, or Plantagenet. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. xii. 30 This name was one of the Sobriquets, or penitential nick-names. 1757Stukeley Acc. Rich. of Cirencester 8 Most of the names then were what we call sobriquets, travelling names,..what we call nick-names. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. vi. 298 The Chronicle..gives him the sobriquet of Annuine. 1860Adler Prov. Poet. xvi. 364 In his verses he never designated her but by a species of poetic sobriquet. 1875W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 57 Because of this reprehensible state of the town, Whithorn got a not very complimentary sobriquet.
Hence ˈsobriquet v. trans., to nickname. Also sobriˈquetical a., of or pertaining to sobriquets.
1842Tait's Mag. IX. 683 He has been sobriquetted by..Tom Moore, as the Rev. Murtagh O'Mulligan. 1875Lower Eng. Surnames (ed. 4) II. 23 Surnames, geographical, topographical,..sobriquetical,..and historical. |