soubriquet : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: soubriquet	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for soubriquet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soubriquet n 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" Synonym(s): nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Sobriquet \[d8]So`bri`quet"\ (s[osl]`br[esl]`k[asl]"), n.[F. sobriquet, OF. soubzbriquet, soubriquet, a chuck under the chin, hence, an affront, a nickname; of uncertain origin; cf. It. sottobecco a chuck under the chin.] An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname. [Sometimes less correctly written {soubriquet}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Soubriquet \Sou`bri`quet"\, n. See {Sobriquet}.