sobriquets

variants also soubriquets
plural of sobriquet
as in nicknames
a descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual tagged her with the sobriquet "peanut" because of her diminutive size

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Noun
  • Newsom's press office's X account has been regularly posting memes, snarky all-caps messages and using catchy nicknames for his opponents.
    Alia Shoaib, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Colleagues described a popular chaplain with nicknames for the tiny patients and soothing words for their bleary-eyed parents.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Then there was the woman who was Speaker of the House and would walk around talking to herself, screaming out epithets to imaginary people.
    Larry David, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Terrell represented a Black teenager who’d been expelled from a Los Angeles high school for punching a white referee during a football game after the referee allegedly had directed racial epithets at him.
    Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Lily, Loki, Max, Star, Oscar, Zelda, Pepper, Callie, Gus, Kitty, Olive, Olivia, Jack and Chloe, are among the other popular monikers.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Which of the following monikers did Benjamin Franklin NOT employ?
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
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“Sobriquets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sobriquets. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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