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Definition of Nicknamers
1. nicknamer [n] - See also: nicknamer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicknamers
Literary usage of Nicknamers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leading American Essayists by William Morton Payne (1910)
"... was the happiest of his nicknamers in calling him the "poet-naturalist,"
although he was hardly a poet in the literal sense, and his naturalist quality ..."
2. Notes on Fish and Fishing by John Jackson Manley (1877)
"I am ready, as I have shown myself, to support the chub against his nicknamers
and the detractors of his outward person; ..."
3. Scott's Last Expedition ...: Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R. F by Robert Falcon Scott, Leonard Huxley (1913)
"... were named after the several schools which had subscrita for their purchase:
but sailors are inveterate nicknamers, and the unofficial humour prevailed. ..."
4. On renascence drama, or history made visible by William Thomson (1880)
"... and the odium thereby thrown through defects by nicknamers of the "breeches,"
the "treacle," and the "bug" or "bogie" Bible that blotted literature, ..."
5. Kincaid's Battery by George Washington Cable (1908)
"... where with the ladies' guns "the ladies' man" had worn the grass off all the
plain and the zest of novelty out of all his nicknamers, daily hammering— ..."
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