n. 1 pet name, sobriquet, epithet, agnomen, Colloq moniker or monicker, handle Her real name is Josephine, but her nickname is Dusty 2 diminutive A common nickname for Terence is Terry
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Oxford thesaurus English vocab. Английский словарь Оксфорд тезаурус. 2012