单词 | nickname |
释义 | nicknamen. 1. A (usually familiar or humorous) name which is given to a person, place, etc., as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.In early use also: †an incorrect name; a misnomer (obsolete). In quot. 1617: the action of giving such a name. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > nickname or additional name to-namec950 eke-name1303 surnamec1330 bynamec1374 nickname1440 addition1472 epitheton1570 by-term1579 epithet1579 agnomination1590 adjunct1598 apathaton1598 byword1598 nurse-name1605 familiar name1611 suradditiona1616 sobriquet1646 agname1652 last name1695 agnomen1809 cognomen1811 soubriquet1818 nickery1823 handle1838 cognomination1843 moniker1851 eponym1863 adname1890 tag1961 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 352 Neke name, or eke name, Agnomen. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 248/1 Nyckename, brocquart. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 378 I shoulde here call Tindall by another name:..it were no nyck name at all. c1560 in J. G. Nichols Narr. Reformation (1859) 73 A proclamacion, in the whyche was commandement geven thatt we shulde geve no necname wntoo the sacrament, as rownd Robin, or Jack in the box. 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Gi Men haue geuen all these nycke names to the places aboue sayde. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 63 James Fitz-thomas..was by a nicke-name called the Suggon Earle. 1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 138 Yee Independents, or yee Anabaptists, or yee Quakers, (which are all but Nick names). 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 226. ⁋4 He unfortunately got the Nickname of the Squeaking Doctor. 1730 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 42 Most learned Men..would rather charge such manifest Qualities and Operations of Nature with the Nick-Name of occult Qualities. 1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 313 (note) Very improperly called cappers, a nick-name by which they are styled in some printed poll-books. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 129 A name for a stage coach which beats..every other English nick-name out of the field. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 15 His own countrymen called him by a Saxon nickname. 1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxii. 201 He had an absurd nickname for every boy in the house. 1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 438/1 Those mound builders..whose earthen monuments gave to St. Louis its nickname, ‘The Mound City’. 1958 A. Sillitoe Saturday Night & Sunday Morning vi. 91 He had called her Gyp because of her long black hair, a nickname that enraged her. 1984 M. Scammell Solzhenitsyn (1985) iii. 77 In early adolescence, when he suddenly grew much taller than the others, he earned the nickname of ‘Ostrich’. 2001 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 219/2 In negotiations, Grossman exuded a menacing charm; around Greenwich Village, his nickname was ‘the floating Buddha’. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > first name > familiar form of nickname1605 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 114 From Nicknames or Nursenames, came these..Bill for William, Clem for Clement. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xvi. 162 A wery good name it [sc. Job] is; only one, I know, that ain't got a nickname to it. Derivatives ˈnicknameless adj. having no nickname. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [adjective] > named or called > with a nickname > not nicknameless1894 1894 J. Menzies Our Town xi. 115 John O'Meara, a nicknameless native of the Emerald Isle. 1986 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 12 Oct. 54 The popular Symphony No. 103 in E-flat (‘Drum Roll’) and the nicknameless, therefore less familiar No. 102 in B-flat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nicknamev. a. transitive. To call by an incorrect or improper name; to misname. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > misname miscall1495 nickname1536 misname1537 misterm1579 misstylea1604 misbaptize1610 mistitle1618 mischristena1631 misnomer1795 misnome1820 1536 R. Morison Remedy for Sedition 2 A certayne commune welth..whiche if we baptyse righte and not nycke name it, we must nedes call a comon wo. 1580 T. Lupton Siuqila 53 Are they called good men with you, that are stoute fighters?.. Then surely they nickname them, unlesse evil be good. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 148 You list you nickname Gods creatures. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 26 When we leave out this syllable All, we nick-name God, and call him by his creatures name. 1680 E. Hickeringill Curse ye Meroz 5 It is (so) styled in this Text by the Spirit of God that Nick-names nothing. 1708 C. Cibber Lady's Last Stake iii. 39 Sir Fr. What a Shame it is the World shou'd not call it by its true name Cheating... Ld. Geo. O, Sir, the name I grant you wou'd strangely alter the Case; but People of Rank, and Power..Nick-name one another's Infirmities. 1796 G. Colman Iron Chest iii. i. 82 Blanch. A sportsman! out on you, rogue! you were a poacher.Sams. Aye, so the rich nick-name us poor brothers of the field. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (Bohn) 117 That compendious philosophy, which..contrives a theory of spirit by nicknaming matter. 1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) i. 115 The French and Germans have named the vowels, but the English have nick-named them. b. transitive. With complement. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.iijv Isatis, in english wad, & not Ode as some corrupters of the englishe tonge do nikename it. 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered vii. 23 Which..the Apostle [calls]..ψευδωνυμονγνωσιν knowledge so nicknamed. 1621 F. Quarles Hadassa sig. F2v Diuine directions, Which oft (vnseene through dulnesse of the minde) We nick-name Chance. 1656 G. Collier Vindiciæ Thesium de Sabbato (new ed.) xiii. 25 Publick Sacramental Examination, is nick-named, private Popish Confession. 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 72 You will see..a watch-house (nick-named a fort). 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iii. 32 The fool Whom courtiers nickname monarch. 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV xix. 14 With no great care for what is nicknamed glory. c. transitive. To speak of in error; to assert wrongly to be something. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > incorrect information > report or state wrongly [verb (transitive)] > mistake identity of misknowc1330 miskenc1550 mistake1569 nickname1598 misidentify1895 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 349 King. The vertue of your eie must breake my oth. Que. You nickname vertue, vice you should haue spoke. View more context for this quotation 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 548 For preventing Princes of that sort of Dominion, which is nicknamed to be Power given them by Heaven. 2. a. transitive. To give a nickname to (a person); to call by a nickname. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > give or call by nickname nickname1567 byname1587 agnominate1595 nick1607 cognominate1609 agname1652 to-name1775 cognomen1831 sobriquet1842 cognominize1849 soubriquet1880 moniker1923 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. ii. viii. 19 S. Hierome..nicknameth S. Ambrose, sometime callinge him Coruus, sometime Cornicula. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall 8 I will nicke-name no bodie: I am none of these tuft mockadoo mak-a-dooes. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 162 The Gowers that people it; nick-nam'd from their Idolatry. 1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician I. 116 Alphonso, who was Nick-named from his broken Hands. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. ii. iii. 92 This worthy gentleman should likewise have been nicknamed from the most whimsical part of his dress. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxix. 383 They nicknamed and adopted all of us as members of their fraternity. 1915 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Island xxvii. 230 And one named Jonas! But I mean to call him Jo. That's such a nice, crisp little name. I couldn't nickname Alonzo. 1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night i. ii. 9 They were Sabras—nicknamed after the thorny, rather tasteless fruit of the cactus. 1989 T. Tryon Night of Moonbow i. ii. 17 All bony ribs and hyperkinetic, Monkey Twitchell was well nicknamed. b. transitive. With complement. ΚΠ 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 2/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Who so surpasseth others either in cauilling sophistry, or subtill philosophy, is forthwith nicknamed a Duns. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 255 (margin) Nick-named, Iohn Lack-land. 1656 P. Heylyn Extraneus Vapulans 227 The bitternesse of his Style against those poor men whom he so nick-nameth. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 264 A notable Turkish Corsair, by the Spaniards nick-named Cacha-Diablo, i.e. Drub-Devil. 1760 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 388 They were soon nicknamed Methodists. 1825 J. Bentham Rationale Reward 41 You shall not be nicknamed projectors by the idle and the incapable. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 281 The satirists of the age nicknamed him Lord Allpride. 1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 42 The Roman party nicknamed it Simon Magus's tonsure. 1936 C. Birkby Thirstland Treks 225 A bottle of..the harsh home-distilled brandy nicknamed wit blits or chain lightning. 1989 V. S. Pritchett Chekhov vi. 69 He stayed..with a friend of the Lintvaryovs called Alexander Smagin, whom they nicknamed the Shah of Persia. Derivatives ˈnicknameable adj. rare that can be nicknamed. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [adjective] > named or called > with a nickname > capable of being nicknameable1898 1898 L. Stephen Stud. of Biographer II. iv. 144 A man who is ‘nicknameable’ must be a good fellow. ˌnicknaˈmee n. rare a person to whom a nickname is given. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [noun] > nicknaming > one to whom nickname is given nicknamee1888 1888 Spectator 18 Feb. 239/2 No matter how obscure the nicknamer and nicknamee may be. 2001 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 8 July e1 In order to make a nickname truly work, the ‘nicknamee’ must consent to being addressed by it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440v.1536 |
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