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Definition of Nicknamer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicknamer
Literary usage of Nicknamer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Puttenham: The Arte of English Poesie by Richard Puttenham (1869)
"... I call him the nicknamer. If any other man can geue him a fitter ... or the
nicknamer. But euery name geuen in ieft or by way of a ..."
2. Detraction Displayed by Amelia Alderson Opie (1828)
"Sometimes a nicknamer is so ingenious, and hits off so exactly the character of
the person nicknamed, that it amounts to wit. Still, And sometimes I have ..."
3. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"And the first nicknamer of the Quakers that ever I heard, was a corrupt justice
in the year 1650, whose name was Gervase Bennet, in Darby. ..."
4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"And the first nicknamer of the Quakers that ever I heard, was a corrupt justice
in the year 1650, whose name was Gervase Bennet, in Darby. ..."
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