I remembered the cruelnicknames "Belladonna" and "Poison Flower.
Indeed, beyond mentioning some of the popular nicknames by which the apple was known in his day, little is said about it.
Nicknames probably originated in the desire to conceal a creature's true identity.
Many surnames have come down from nicknames given to people because of their good or bad qualities.
It is from such nicknames that we get surnames like White, Black, Long, Young, Short, and so on.
We get the best examples of this in the nicknames applied to the Norman kings.
Another way of givingnicknames to people because of something noticeable in their character or appearance was to give them the name of some animal having this quality.
Nicknames that in the sexless jargon of her day and of her kind might have been names of women and might be names of men.
So the prophet nicknames his mercenary generation.
The nation's character is so disguised that Hosea afterwardsnicknames him Canaan;[543] their religion so filled with foreign influences that he calls the people the harlot of the Ba'alim.
They had inventednicknames for all the residents in the northern row, of which the schoolroom possessed the best view, before they had been a week in their new quarters.
As these nicknames are frequently encountered by readers, it may be just as well to recognize the fact that a knowledge of them is more or less of a necessity.
Yankee humor and high-flown oratory are responsible for most of the nicknames by which the States and many of the cities in the United States have come to be known.
There is this result, on the off-islands especially, that the same surname is repeated over and over again, so that nicknames have to be resorted to, to distinguish one man from another.
Many of his names are little more than nicknames for familiar shapes, which enjoyed a temporary popularity.
Many of them are, as will be seen, only alternatives names or nicknames for well-known shapes, while others included in his description are certainly not drinking-cups at all.
Sometimes whole sentences stand as nicknames for these popular characters.
I shall always seek to ascertain the true names of each nation or tribe: which have often been disguised under a crowd of nicknames and erroneous orthographies.
He was clever innicknames and witty expressions,--as when he dubbed the Blue Book of the Import Duties Committee "the greatest work of imagination that the nineteenth century had produced.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Those who had not yet been marked, received the mark from the master of the ceremonies, the devil at the same time bestowing nicknamesupon them.
The populace are often most happy in the nicknames they employ.
That is the immense advantage that nicknames possess over real names.
We know in our secret souls that our nicknames are our true names, and that our real names are mere tags and badges; but we prefer the meaningless tag to the too candid truth.
In the comedies she goes by the nicknames of the new Omphale and Deianira, and again is styled Juno.
Malagrida the Jesuit and Jemmy Twitcher were nicknames which made one of our ministers odious, and another contemptible.
Their septs are of the usual low-caste type, being named after animals, inanimate objects or nicknames of ancestors.
The caste have also a set of exogamous groups, several of which bear the names of Rajput clans, while others are called after villages, titles or nicknames or natural objects.
These nicknames are sometimes the names of animals, and in older times were more numerous than at present.
There still remain among the Passamaquoddies certain nicknames borne by persons of the tribe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nicknames" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
