nickname
英['nɪkneɪm]
美['nɪk'nem]
- n. 绰号；昵称
- vt. 给……取绰号；叫错名字
英英释意
- 1. 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"
- 2. a descriptive name for a place or thing;
- "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"