nickname

She gives Charlie not only a gorgeous sweater and other swag but the inimitable nicknames “cockring” and “stepson.”

Her style, much like her diminutive nickname, is best described as “Hamptons twee”—preppy and peppy.

My nickname was Captain, though I was a private, first class.

All would attest to the manifest goodness that inspired the perfect nickname for the boy who would become a perfect cop.

In Vietnam, Lewis was advisor to a Vietnamese infantry unit, whose nickname for him was “Captain of Many Kilos.”

His nickname, given to him at the Battle of Gettysburg and which he kept for the rest of his life, was Stonewall Jim.

This last appellation was but a nickname of the tribe, which was properly called Wendot or Wyandot.

A correspondent writes to The Times to object to the nickname "Tommies" applied to our soldiers.

His name and his bright past, seen through the prism of whispered gossip, had gained him the nickname of The Admiral.

He was given the nickname of Malagrida, a Portuguese Jesuit who had been executed for conspiracy in 1761.

But in ordinary families it was quite natural that a nickname applied to the father should become a surname.