Definitions
give a nickname to
Word origin
From Middle English neke name, 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.
Used in a sentence
“"The Big Apple" is a common nickname for New York City.”
“[…] Plato, who was named Aristocles after his grandfather, but received from his gymnastic master the nickname Πλάτων (from πλάτυς, broad), which practically superseded his real name.”
“Both literally and figuratively, the city has cleaned up without sacrificing the edge that inspired its locally embraced nickname of “Grit City.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Short handle”8 letters
02“Dub”8 letters
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