word of the day :: sobriquet

sobriquet:

[soh-bruh-key, -ket, soh-bruh-key, -ket; Fr.saw-bree-ke]

–noun, plural -quets

a nickname.

  

Origin:

1640–50;  < F < ?

"She more than earned her sobriquet, 'Miss Run Amok'."

:: Maureen Dowdy ::

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