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nicknamer|ˈnɪkneɪmə(r)|
[f. prec. + -er1.]
†1. The rhetorical figure Prosonomasia. Obs. rare.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 212 Ye have a figure by which ye play with a couple of words or names much resembling, and because the one seemes to answere th'other by manner of illusion, and doth, as it were, nick him, I call him the Nicknamer.
2. One who nicknames another person or thing.
1868A. Smith Last Leaves 172 The nicknamed and the nicknamer sleep in the same forgetfulness. 1894Huxley in Life (1900) II. xxii. 385 The nicknamer of genius called this brand of genius ‘pig philosophy’. |