nicknamer

noun

nicknamer

noun

Etymology From nickname + -er.

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:

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