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sobriquet, soubriquet a humorous epithet, assumed name, or nickname |
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" "A sobriquet," observes the captain, "for which I can find no parallel in history since the days of 'Charles the Bald. Such had been Silas Deemer--such the fixity and invariety of his life and habit, that the village humorist (who had once attended college) was moved to bestow upon him the sobriquet of "Old Ibidem," and, in the first issue of the local newspaper after the death, to explain without offence that Silas had taken "a day off. Usually he saw things long before others were aware that there was anything to see--a trait that had won for him the sobriquet of Hawk. |
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