moniker
/ˈmɒnɪkə
/(also monicker)
noun informal
A name: his real moniker is Dave Kennedy...
- Can you name the artist's solo title, her Spice moniker and her actual name?
- They eschew their given names for monikers like ‘Hotstick,’ ‘Bo’ and ‘Socks.’
- With three speech scrolls, Quinatzin engages the two men to his right, whom the painter identifies with ethnic monikers instead of personal names.
Derivatives
monikered
- Up to six million people are expected to log on during the month-long project to see how the politically monikered pen-mates get on.
- This weekend, I received three e-mails from three of the most impressively monikered people I've ever heard of.
- Home Page is a cleverly monikered site that seems to only contain random pictures and not much else.
Origin
Mid 19th century: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- prejudice-free
- prejudiceless
- prejudicial
- prejudicially
- prejudiciary
- prejudicious
- prejudiciously
- prejunctural
- pre-K
- preke
- prekindergarten
- pre-kindergartener
- pre-kindergartner
- prekweer
- prelabial
- prelabrum
- prelacteal
- prelacy
- pre-language
- prelapsarian
- prelate
- prelate-martyr
- prelateship
- prelatial
- prelatic