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When someone wishes to remain anonymous, they do not reveal their name.
An appellation is a name or title given to a person, place, or thing.
If you delineate something, such as an idea or situation or border, you describe it in great detail.
A designation is a name, label, or mark that something is given in order to identify it.
A diminution of something is a reduction in the size, number, or importance of it.
An epithet is a short description or term that usually follows and augments someone’s name, such as the word “great” in “Alfred the Great.”
Two items are fungible if one can be exchanged for the other with no loss in inherent value; for example, one $10 bill and two $5 bills are fungible.
Noun
sobriquet
SOH-bruh-kay
Context
After winning the championship for his team, Brad gained the sobriquet or nickname “Golden Boy.” This admiring term or friendly sobriquet reflected the affection of his team and fans. Brad was a bit embarrassed by the label or sobriquet—he felt that the win had been a team effort, and not solely his own doing.
Briquette Sobriquet I have given my grill charcoal or briquettes the sobriquet of "meat so sizzlings" because those briquettes make sizzling meat taste so good!
Examples
Metallica always have been branded the thinking man’s metal band, and they plan to refresh that sobriquet when they perform with the San Francisco Symphony on April 21 and 22, at Berkeley, Calif.'s Community Theatre.
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Rolling Stone
'Hatchet man' was the sobriquet most often applied to him because of his alleged ruthlessness in paring the workforce and ousting those deemed disloyal to the Nixon administration.
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The Washington Post
The best player on tour without a win will be stuck, like peanut butter on the roof of your mouth, with that sobriquet for another year.
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Sports Illustrated
Harlemites had coined the sobriquet 'Sugar Hill 'not only because the street was perched on a bluff far above the shivering hunger of Harlem but also because sugar as slang for money.
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The Washington Post
Word Ingredients
From a root word meaning “chuck under the chin,” which is a friendly manner with which to interact with someone, as is giving someone a nickname; both are considered to be “endearments” which are often used with people who are “dear” to each other.
Word Theater
The Unmentionables Cartoon criminals and their sobriquets.
The panel shows a small video clip of either the word in actual use or a scene that represents the meaning of a word. This not only breaks up the monotony of studying words but also provides another avenue to strengthen word meaning. Enjoy!