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moniker

[mon-i-ker]

noun Slang.

a person's name, especially a nickname or alias.

Also, mon·ick·er.

Origin:
1850–55; probably < Shelta mŭnnik name (alleged to be a permutation and extension of Irish ainm name); final -er may represent -er¹ or, as a spelling of ə, simply release of the k

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an obnoxious or contemptible person

a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty

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Example Sentences

Things were so much simpler in the bad old days, when women were proud to sport hubby's moniker.

Frequent poster under another moniker for anonymity.

Hunter-gatherers' practice of scouring surroundings for edible plants is responsible for only half of their moniker.

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Things were so much simpler in the bad old days, when women were proud to sport hubby's moniker.

Frequent poster under another moniker for anonymity.

Hunter-gatherers' practice of scouring surroundings for edible plants is responsible for only half of their moniker.

As its moniker suggests, this small fish is something of a puzzle.

It's a popular moniker of cubital tunnel syndrome-neuritis, or inflammation of the ulnar nerve.

Stout says there are currently no plans to give the little chick a special moniker.

The catchier moniker came to him in a moment of inspiration on the subway, he says.

Neither a century nor a lustrum is typically graced with any special moniker.

The moniker is given to the full moon that falls closest to the autumnal equinox.

Their rare-earth moniker comes from the fact they rarely show up in concentrated form in a specific mineral or vein.

It didn't even have to have a fanciful moniker that trips off the tongue and cutely embeds a synonym for friend.

The floundering fathers is the moniker of today's crop of incompetents.

The exercise equipment was given its humorous moniker and logo as a compromise.

The editors do a great disservice to the well established moniker of this magazine.

China may not justify that moniker quite yet, and perhaps it never will.

These are a bit thinner and lighter thus the minimalist moniker.

If that body politic doesn't openly revile him, they aren't even worthy of the moniker of reform.

The robot's moniker came from its tendency to shake when the machine came to an abrupt stop.

All lusophone countries refer to their public figures by nicknames, or a moniker.

The climate change moniker may buy the politicos a year or two.

Actually, the first band's moniker is difficult to say only in polite company.

For this reason the movement sometimes goes by the moniker neotraditionalism.

The experimental moniker is actually a bit misleading as the airplanes aren't really an experiment.

Mobile phones do not share a single global moniker because the origins of their names are deeply cultural.

Marine moniker and did not give up without a fight.

Skrenta's program wasn't called a virus, since that moniker came later, nor did it spread widely outside his circle of friends.

It's as ignorant to blanket all oil companies with the liar moniker as it is to blanket all environmental groups with the same.

The media continues to use the moniker without regard for the details.

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World English Dictionary

moniker or monicker (ˈmɒnɪkə)

—n
	slang a person's name or nickname

[C19: from Shelta munnik, altered from Irish ainm name]

monicker or monicker

—n

[C19: from Shelta munnik, altered from Irish ainm name]

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Word Origin & History

moniker

1849, said to be originally a hobo term (but attested in London underclass from 1851), of uncertain origin; perhaps from monk (monks and nuns take new names with their vows, and early 19c. British tramps referred to themselves as "in the monkery").

Slang Dictionary

moniker definition

[ˈmɑnəkɚ]
and monniker

n.
a nickname. : With a moniker like that, you must get in a lot of fights.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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