sobriquet

• soubriquet

Borrowed from French sobriquet (“nickname”), from Middle French soubriquet (“a chuck under the chin”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊ.bɹɪ.keɪ/
• (US) enPR: ʹsōbrĭkā, ʹsōbrĭkĕt, IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊ.bɹɪ.keɪ/, /ˈsoʊ.bɹɪ.kɛt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

sobriquet (plural sobriquets)

1. A familiar name for a person or thing; a nickname (sometimes assumed by the person, but often given by others) that is descriptive.

   Synonyms: cognomen, moniker, nickname

   “The Bard” is a sobriquet of English playwright William Shakespeare.

   • 2011, Pranay Gupte, Dubai: The Making of a Megapolis‎^[1], Penguin Books India, →ISBN, page 344:

     Tight quickly became a Jumeirah Jane—a sobriquet used as a caricature for non-working foreign women who live in Jumeirah, a posh part of the city, and spent their time driving kids to and from schools, shopping or meeting one another for lunch.

   • 1862, A. Banning Norton, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     The sobriquet of Johnny Appleseed attached to him, though his real name was Chapman, in consequence of his being ever engaged in gathering and planting appleseed and cultivating nurseries of apple trees.

   • 1951 November, David R. Webb, “The Drummond 4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 774:

     They turned out to be speedy machines and earned the sobriquet "Greyhounds", giving excellent performances on the Exeter run.

Inherited from Middle French soubriquet (“a chuck under the chin”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.bʁi.kɛ/

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sobriquet m (plural sobriquets)

1. nickname

• “sobriquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.