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When someone wishes to remain anonymous, they do not reveal their name.
An appellation is a name or title given to a person, place, or thing.
If you delineate something, such as an idea or situation or border, you describe it in great detail.
A designation is a name, label, or mark that something is given to identify it.
A diminution of something is a reduction in the size, number, or importance of it.
An epithet is a short description or term that usually follows and augments someone’s name, such as the word “great” in “Alfred the Great.”
Two items are fungible if one can be exchanged for the other with no loss in inherent value; for example, one $10 bill and two $5 bills are fungible.
Noun
sobriquet
SOH-bruh-kay
Context
After winning the championship for his team, Brad gained the sobriquet or nickname “Golden Boy.” This admiring term or friendly sobriquet reflected the affection of his team and fans. Brad was a bit embarrassed by the label or sobriquet—he felt that the win had been a team effort and not solely his own doing.
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What is a sobriquet?
An affectionate and funny name given to someone.
An award given to someone for years of hard work.
A team surprisingly winning a national championship.
Briquette Sobriquet I have given my grill charcoal or briquettes the sobriquet of "meat so sizzlings" because those briquettes make sizzling meat taste so good!
Examples
Harlemites had coined the sobriquet "Sugar Hill" not only because the street was perched on a bluff far above the shivering hunger of Harlem but also because sugar [was] slang for money.
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Kathryn Talalay, American editor and writer, from _Composition in Black and White_
The economy has grown by an average of 9 percent a year for the past 10 years and earned Ireland the sobriquet "Celtic Tiger."
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The Christian Science Monitor
Then there are those who had brief success, earning for the moment the sobriquet the Next Great Golfer, only to settle back—people like Jerry Heard, Lanny Wadkins and Ben Crenshaw.
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Sports Illustrated
Word Ingredients
From a root word meaning “chuck under the chin,” which is a friendly manner with which to interact with someone, as is giving someone a nickname; both are considered to be “endearments” which are often used with people who are “dear” to each other.
Word Theater
The Julie Andrews Archive: “The Princess Diaries” Mia shares that her nickname in school was Motormouth and finds out her grandmother was called by only her real name as a child.
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