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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 660 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICKNAME  , a name given to a

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person in addition to his
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personal names,
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Christian and surname, either as a playful or
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familiar
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form of address or as a
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mark of ridicule, contempt or hatred . The
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Middle
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English form of the word, nekename, shows that it is a corruption of " an ekename " (i.e . " added " name; eke, earlier eche, from the
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root seen in
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Lat. augere, Gr. aWtvew), and is therefore
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equivalent to the Lat. agnomen . There is an interesting
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list of
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national nicknames in Notes and Queries, 9th
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series, 4, 212-214 .

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