[
US
/ˈsoʊbɹəˌkeɪ, ˌsəbɹəˈkɛt/
]
[ UK /sˈɒbɹɪkˌeɪ/ ]
[ UK /sˈɒbɹɪkˌeɪ/ ]
NOUN
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a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
Henry's nickname was Slim
Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph
How To Use sobriquet In A Sentence
- Ne donnez iamais de sobriquet, soit dans le jeu, ou bien hors du jeu. George Washington's Rules of Civility
- Antsy of late over his management style, investors and analysts have tossed about sobriquets including "megalomaniac" and "acquisition crazy," with some saying his spending must be reined in. People To Watch: The Week AheadThe Week Ahead: Feb. 27-March 3
- Von Kluge now demonstrated the passive-aggressive cleverness that had earned him the malicious although probably justified sobriquet of “Der kluge Hans,” clever Hans. Deathride
- From this day you must learn to embrace all manner of millinery or else relinquish your "coquette" sobriquet. How about that Prada turban?
- Pine and Ting looked on in fascination until Greg stormed out under a barrage of slanderous sobriquets. THE MANANA MAN
- Yet this lack of acquisitiveness, this disregard for hoarding, has earned indigenous communities sobriquets like ‘uncivilized’ or ‘primitive’.
- Early on Sunday morning last, a person who lives at Brampton, near Appleby and who we only know by the sobriquet of ‘Cock Robin’, narrowly escaped being drowned.
- Sobriquet is the French form yet "soubriquet" has made the dictionary as a variant. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1
- His size and powerful running off the back of the scrum and in open play have earned him his sobriquet. Times, Sunday Times
- Yes, people like "The Nonplussed Minnesotan Commuter" may scoff, but our local media is already dubbing this storm the "Snowpocalypse," or "Snowmageddon," or "God's Dandruff," or any number of irritatingly hyperbolized sobriquets, and life here has slowed to a virtual trackstand. Blizzard of Odd: Pedaling to the Bitter End