nickname

Bedeutung

Noun

1. A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.
2. A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing.

Verb

To give a nickname to (a person or thing).

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈnɪkneɪm/

Etymologie

From Middle English nekename, alteration (due to a rebracketing of an ekename as a nekename) of earlier ekename (“nickname”), from eke (“additional”) + name. Compare Old Norse aukanafn, auknafn, auknefni, Faroese eyknevni, Danish øgenavn, Norwegian Nynorsk aukenamn, Swedish öknamn, and German Low German Ökelname.
For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, orange, umpire.

Sätze

During this time , he earned his nickname " Egg in a bun ".

Während dieser Zeit verdiente er seinen Spitznamen "Ei in einem Brötchen".