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Example sentences for: nicknames

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Though the exact date of their birth is uncertain, team nicknames originnated in the United States sometime before the Civil War.
Emidio de Felice, the maestro of Italian anthroponymy and author of I Cognomi Italiani (Bologna: Il mulino, 1981) and Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (Milano: A. Mondadori, 1978), has estimated that no fewer than 15 per cent of all Italian surnames have their origin in nicknames.
On Some Secrets of English Nicknames, by Ralph Emerson: the article did not mention a common Australian nickname pattern.
Indian nicknames, in short, mingled old superstitions with tongue-in-cheek sophistication.
Better nicknames than the Italians ever had.