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nicknamer

nicknamer noun: one who bestows a nickname.

Noun

nicknamer (plural nicknamers)

  1. One who bestows a nickname.
    • The Hudson River Cafe, which opened in May, is tucked beneath the West Side Highway at 133rd Street, in West Harlem, on that still-gritty stretch of 12th Avenue along the Riverside Drive viaduct that hopeful real-estate nicknamers have dubbed “ViVa,” for Viaduct Valley.2007 August 19, Jonathan Miles, “Sanguine Sangria”, in New York Times

Forms of nicknamer

pluralnicknamers

Origin of nicknamer

From nickname + -er.

Questions about nicknamer

What does nicknamer mean?
Nicknamer means one who bestows a nickname.
What part of speech is nicknamer?
Nicknamer is a noun.
What is the plural of nicknamer?
The plural of nicknamer is nicknamers.

Words near nicknamer in the dictionary

  1. nicknameable
  2. nicknamed
  3. nicknamee
  4. nicknamees
  5. nicknameless
  6. nicknamer
  7. nicknamers
  8. nicknames
  9. nicknamey
  10. nicknaming
  11. Nickneven

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