Associations to the word «Soubriquet»

Wiktionary

SOUBRIQUET, noun. Alternative spelling of sobriquet

Dictionary definition

SOUBRIQUET, noun. A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim".

Wise words

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis