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Even today, nicknames sometimes serve as a protective shield (as Fats , for example, might protect an obese person from even worse insults).
The suffix - s for nicknames still seems to be used, as in the following, which I have heard in the last year or so:
He grew up all the way east on 76 th Street, in Yorkville, and although he seems to have been a mama's boy, a loner who liked to read, tough guys in the neighborhood gave him nicknames like Red, Runt, and Short Shit, and forced him to learn how to fight.
So most nicknames are the inheritance of boyhood features or facial characteristics, e.g., Chubby, Porgie, Moon, Snail, Speedy (apparently his opposite), Peg-Leg, and the like, all delineating good friends of mine.
Native Americans, for their part, have objected less to tribal nicknames per se than to the tom-tom-thumping pregame pageants and war-whooping halftime shows they so often give rise to.