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moniker slang.|ˈmɒnɪkə(r)|
Also monarch, monekeer, monica, monick(er, monniker, etc.
[Origin unknown.]
A name, a nick-name. Also (rare) as v. trans., to apply a name to (a person).
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 218/2 ‘What is your ‘monekeer’ (name)?’—Perhaps it turns out that one is ‘White-headed Bob’, and the other ‘Plymouth Ned’. 1851[see ream a.]. 1879Macm. Mag. Oct. 502/1 While at the station they asked me what my monarch (name) was. 1882Sydney Slang Dict. 6/1 Monniker, a person's name (often assumed). Ibid. 10/1 The padding ken of Sally Hicks, who's got a new moniker, which is Lushing Loo. 1885M. Davitt Prison Diary I. xvi. 151 Many of them having a fresh ‘monicker’ (name) each conviction. 1895Times 11 Nov. 3/4 The van is alright; I have had the ‘monnick’ (slang word for name) taken off it. 1903‘J. Flynt’ Rise Ruderick Clowd i. 46 In the—Ward ‘monakers’, or nicknames, mean more than they do in uptown communities. 1907J. London Road (1914) 169 His ‘monica’ was Skysail Jack. 1926J. Black You can't Win ix. 111 Whether it was his appearance or his careful manner of speech that got him his monoger, ‘The Sanctimonious Kid’, I never knew. 1936J. Curtis Gilt Kid v. 50 Eileen, or something, that was the sister's monick. 1936M. Franklin All that Swagger lii. 488 ‘I thought it was mimosa.’ ‘That's its trade moniker; it's home name is wattle.’ 1938Amer. Speech XIII. 195, I monikered him (gave him his moniker, or tramp name). 1944Sun (Baltimore) 7 Aug. 2/7 He came by the name of Omar N. (the N being for Nelson) through his father's searching for a ‘distinctive’ moniker for his offspring. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 84/1 Henry Handel Richardson herself..was able to hide behind the male signature on her books (her maiden name wedded to two favourite family monikers). 1960Melody Maker 31 Dec. 6/3 Oliver Cool is the pseudonym of singer Larry Ellis, who found he won more success when he adopted the ‘far-out’ monniker. 1964Punch 2 Dec. 826/1 Mildly bitter moniker given to Swiss-based moneymen. 1968L. Morton Long Wake i. 18 The documents came to Jack Roberts for my ‘Monica’. 1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 78/3 Slim and his brother helped bail the pilot out. The Airplane Kid moniker followed. |