0 an informal name for someone or something, especially a name that you are called by your friends or family, usually based on your real name or your character -- 外號；綽號；諢名
Do you have any nicknames?
As a child, he was given the nickname 'Brackets' because of his bandy legs.
We all had nicknames at school.
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.
