0 an informal name given in affection, admiration, dislike etc -- nama timangan
Wellington’s nickname was ‘the Iron Duke’.
1 to give a nickname to -- menggelar
We nicknamed him ‘Foureyes’ because he wore spectacles.
When two nicknames are given, the first is used for men's teams and the other is used for women's teams.
Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community ideology or myth are also believed to have economic value.
We know them by their nicknames, as they are called after the villages from which they come.
They too are concerned with the removal of children from the remote monitoring system—"electronic tagging" as it has been nicknamed.
I pointed out that, so much is it recognised as a gap, it has been nicknamed the "death gap".
When men are greatly loved, they get pet names, or nicknames, as we call them.
If we did not know one another's real names, we knew the nicknames.
Ethnic names reveal characteristics of both nicknames and pseudonyms, as well as their own unique social correlates related to issues of ethnic identity, cultural maintenance, solidarity, and resistance.
