Associations to the word «Soubriquet»

Wiktionary

SOUBRIQUET, noun. Alternative spelling of sobriquet

Dictionary definition

SOUBRIQUET, noun. 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".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope