0 an informal name given in affection, admiration, dislike etc -- ชื่อเล่น
Wellington’s nickname was ‘the Iron Duke’.
1 to give a nickname to -- ตั้งชื่อเล่น
We nicknamed him ‘Foureyes’ because he wore spectacles.
Informants were well aware of this danger ; one refused to use nicknames for superiors at all out of fear of this result.
Clearly this asser tion is only par t of the phenomenon of nicknames, as the above discussion reveals.
In other words, these alternative names, or "nicknames," may appropriately be considered ethnic names.
None of them are named in the opening chapter, and in subsequent ones they are introduced in passing and without explanation, often by nicknames or abbreviated first names.
While we must be aware of the difficulties in drawing comparisons between different societies in different periods, the central point about the dynamics of nicknames is an important one.
Such nicknames were rare (although it is possible that they could have been under-reported in the interviews) and applied only to students who caused the teacher particular stress or suffering.
Exceptions to this tendency generally involved nicknames which were used behind the referent's back or an adjustment towards the form of reference used by the other member of a dyad.
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.
