variants also soubriquet
as in nickname
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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Recent Examples of sobriquet Quiz: from 1964 to the present, which major Republican candidate for president was NOT charged with this sobriquet? Walter E Block, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2025 The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess by Meryl Gordon Perle Mesta acquired many sobriquets during her long life. Robin Olson, airmail.news, 4 Jan. 2025 That reputation earned Bayer Leverkusen the unflattering sobriquet Bayer Neverkusen—which explains itself. Paolo Confino, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2024 The family’s sing-songy pronunciation makes the sobriquet sound almost Italian to my ears, somewhere in the range of Papa-tierri, a mondegreen that elicits no shortage of laughter among celebrants. Nico Lang, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sobriquet
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Noun
  • 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
  • The waterways that have earned the city the nickname Venice of America.
    Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 9 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
  • The latest entry in the sci-fi franchise comes with a soundtrack helmed by Nine Inch Nails, with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross lending their names to the project under the band’s moniker for the first time.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • With the third record, Cain's story ends, and Anhedönia soon plans to retire the moniker.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Sobriquet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sobriquet. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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