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Nicknamed

Nickname \Nick"name`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nicknamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Nicknaming.] To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.

You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke.
--Shak.

I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the doctrine of finality.
--Macaulay.

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nicknamed

vb. (en-past of: nickname)

Usage examples of "nicknamed".

He was nicknamed Hummingbird Sung because he was always darting from dance hall to dance hall, from flower to flower, in Singapore, Bangkok and Taipei, Hong Kong, dipping his manhood into a myriad of ladies' honey pots, the rumor being it wasn't his manhood because he enjoyed cunnilingus.

Boris and Rachel, Marigold and Lysander or Larry, and for Miss Bottomley Georgie had invited Meredith Whalen, an extremely expensive, gay interior designer, who was nicknamed the Ideal Homo, because he was so often asked to make up numbers at Paradise dinner parties.

One of the in­structors—a real bastard nicknamed Captain Blood—was about to call for the medics and have me removed.

The man had been nicknamed Crash for his ability to move sound­lessly in any circumstance, under any condition.

In the same manner in which a very, very large man might be nicknamed "Mouse" or "Flea," Billy Hawken had ever after been known as Crash.

Todd had nicknamed the swine herd Wayne's War Boars, a more euphonious title, even though there were more sows than boars.

Lord Tolocamp was considered a fine, looking man, too, tall and vigorous, certainly virile, for the Fort Hold Horde, as the harper apprentices had nicknamed us, were not his only issue.

Yaeger, MrauL Nicknamed Pinocchio because he always sticks his nose in where it doesn't belong via his computer.

It's also been nicknamed the Rift Valley because so many marriages break up.

It was Mrs Piggott, Georgie's cleaner, whom Flora had nicknamed Mother Courage, because she drank so much beer and who had already arrived to wash up.

Landlord of The Pearly Gates and predictably nicknamed 'Archangel Mike', he had become great buddies with Lysander since he moved into Paradise.

A diversion was caused at the end of August by the launching of his film of Don Giovanni, promptly nicknamed Dong Giovanni because many of the leading characters appeared with nothing on.

Bart, I did not spend the night with a woman who deserves to be nicknamed ‘Core Breach.

Struan's is nicknamed the 'Noble House' or 'Noble Hong,' hong meaning 'company.

All her life, all her life since she was fourteen when a Manchu rifle butt had smashed out her teeth in one of the constant revolutions against the foreign Chting Dynasty, she had been nicknamed One Tooth.