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A sobriquet is a nickname
Nickname

A nickname is a descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of a person, place or thing. Another class of nickname is the familiar or truncated form of the proper name, such as Bob, Bobby, Rob, Robbie, and Bert for Robert, more properly called a short name....
 or a fancy name, usually a familiar name given by others as distinct from a pseudonym
Pseudonym

A pseudonym, , is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name. In some cases, pseudonyms are adopted because it is part of a cultural or organizational tradition, as in the case of Religious names used by members of some religious orders and "cadre names" used by Communist party leaders such as Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin....
 assumed as a disguise, but a nickname which is familiar enough such that it can be used in place of a real name without the need of explanation. This salient characteristic, that is, of sufficient familiarity, is most easily noted in cases where the sobriquet becomes more familiar than the original name for which it was formed as an alternative.






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A sobriquet is a nickname
Nickname

A nickname is a descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of a person, place or thing. Another class of nickname is the familiar or truncated form of the proper name, such as Bob, Bobby, Rob, Robbie, and Bert for Robert, more properly called a short name....
 or a fancy name, usually a familiar name given by others as distinct from a pseudonym
Pseudonym

A pseudonym, , is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name. In some cases, pseudonyms are adopted because it is part of a cultural or organizational tradition, as in the case of Religious names used by members of some religious orders and "cadre names" used by Communist party leaders such as Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin....
 assumed as a disguise, but a nickname which is familiar enough such that it can be used in place of a real name without the need of explanation. This salient characteristic, that is, of sufficient familiarity, is most easily noted in cases where the sobriquet becomes more familiar than the original name for which it was formed as an alternative. For example, Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan , born , was the founder, Khan and Khagan of the Mongol Empire, the World's largest empires contiguous empire in history....
, who is rarely recognized now by his original name "Temüjin"; and the British Whig
British Whig Party

The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
 party, which acquired its sobriquet from the British Tory Party
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
 as an insult.

Etymology


Two early variants of the term are found, sotbriquet and soubriquet; the latter form is still often used. The modern French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 spelling is sobriquet. The first form suggests a derivation from sot, foolish, and briquet, a French adaptation of Ital.
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 brichetto, diminutive of bricco, ass, knave, possibly connected with briccone, rogue, which is supposed to be a derivative of Ger.
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 brechen, to break; but Skeat
Walter William Skeat

Walter William Skeat , England philologist, was born in London on the 21st of November 1835, and educated at King's College School , Highgate School, and Christ's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in July 1860....
 considers this spelling to be an example of popular etymology, and the real origin is to be sought in the form soubriquet.

Littré gives an early 14th century soubsbriquet as meaning a chuck under the chin, and this would be derived from soubs, mod. sous (Lat.
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 sub), under, and briquet or bruchel, the brisket, or lower part of the throat.

Usage


Sobriquets are often found in politics. Candidates and political figures are often branded with sobriquets, either contemporarily or historically. For example, American President
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
 came to be known as Honest Abe. Sobriquets are not always used to highlight virtuous qualities. A banking tycoon and politician from Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
 named Jake Butcher
Jake Butcher

Jacob Franklin "Jake" Butcher was a United States banking and politician who built a financial empire in East Tennessee, was the United States Democratic Party nominee for governor of Tennessee in 1978 and the primary promoter of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, and who lost his business and his personal fortune after he was fo...
 was known as "Jake the Snake" after being indicted
Indictment

In the common law legal system, an indictment is a formal accusation that a person has committed a criminal offense. In those jurisdictions which retain the concept of a felony, the serious criminal offense would be a felony; those jurisdictions which have abolished the concept of a felony often substitute the concept of an indictable offenc...
 and subsequently convicted for bank fraud.

Fowler's Modern English Usage
Fowler's Modern English Usage

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, often referred to as Fowler's Modern English Usage or simply as Fowler's or Fowler, is a style guide to British English usage, written by Henry Watson Fowler....
 (1926) warned, "Now the sobriquet habit is not a thing to be acquired, but a thing to be avoided; & the selection that follows is compiled for the purpose not of assisting but of discouraging it." Fowler included the sobriquet among what he termed the "battered ornaments" of the language.

Well-known examples in the Anglosphere


A-C

  • Angel of Death
    Angel of Death

    Angel of Death may refer to:In religion:* Death #Death in religion, death personified as an angel in Abrahamic religion.** Gabriel, an archangel....
     - Josef Mengele
    Josef Mengele

    Josef Mengele was a Germans Schutzstaffel officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He gained notoriety for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a slave, and for performing Nazi human experimenta...
  • The Answer
    The Answer

    The Answer may refer to:*Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything*Allen Iverson's nickname*The Answer , by Britney Spears*The Answer , a rock band from Northern Ireland...
     - Allen Iverson
    Allen Iverson

    Allen Ezail Iverson is an United States professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association. As the first pick in the 1996 NBA Draft for the Philadelphia 76ers, Iverson became one of the most prolific scorers in NBA history, despite his small stature....
    , NBA Basketball
    Basketball

    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
     player
  • the Antipodes
    Antipodes

    The antipodes refer to lands and peoples located on the opposite side of the world compared to the speaker. This has a general, linguistic meaning and a technical, geographical meaning....
     - Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
     and New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
  • Auntie
    Auntie

    The word auntie or aunty can mean:-*A pet form for the word "aunt"*An informal name for The British Broadcasting Corporation .*An informal name for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ...
     - either the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
    Australian Broadcasting Corporation

    The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as the ABC, is Australia's national Public broadcasting.With a budget of Australian dollar840 million annually, the corporation provides television, radio, online and mobile services throughout metropolitan and regional Australia, as well as overseas through the Australia Net...
     or the British Broadcasting Corporation
  • BA
    BA

    BA, B.A., or Ba may refer to:...
     - Bryan Adams
    Bryan Adams

    Bryan Adams, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Canada Rock music singer-songwriter and photographer. Rolling Stone magazine describes Adams as having an ?unerring gift for radio-friendly pop hooks" and in 1992, Adams won the Grammy Awards of 1992, for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" fo...
    , English-Canadian musician and photographer
  • Baghdad by the Bay - San Francisco, California
    California

    California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
  • the Bard
    Bard

    In Celts society, a bard was a professional poet, paid by a monarch to praise the sovereign's activities.The term acquired generic meanings of an epic author/singer/narrator or any poets, especially famous ones....
     - William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
  • Beantown - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Becks - David Beckham
    David Beckham

    David Robert Joseph Beckham Order of the British Empire is an England association football who currently plays in midfielder for Italy Serie A club A.C....
    , English
    English people

    The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
     soccer-football player and celebrity
    Celebrity

    A celebrity is a widely-recognized or notable person who commands a high degree of public and media attention. The word stems from the Latin verb "celebrare" but one may not become a celebrity unless public and mass media interest is piqued....
  • The Big Apple - New York City, New York, USA
  • Biggie Smalls - Christopher Wallace
    Christopher Wallace

    Christopher or Chris Wallace may refer to:*Christopher Wallace , retired British Army general and current trustee of the Imperial War Museum...
    , American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     Hip-Hop and rap singer
  • The Big Stick - Theodore Roosevelt
    Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt , also known as T.R., and to the public as Teddy, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....
    's diplomatic policy
  • Bird - Charlie Parker
    Charlie Parker

    Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
  • Blighty
    Blighty

    Blighty is an British English slang term for United Kingdom, deriving from the Hindustani language word vilayati meaning "foreign", and is itself derived from the Arabic language word wilayat, meaning a kingdom or ministry....
     - Great Britain
    Great Britain

    Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
     (used by British servicemen abroad and expatriates)
  • Bloody Mary
    Bloody Mary

    Bloody Mary may refer to:* Bloody Mary , made with vodka and tomato juice* Mary I of England, for the Marian Persecutions* Bloody Mary , a ghost said in folklore to appear in mirrors when summoned...
     - Mary I of England
    Mary I of England

    Mary I , was Queen of England and Monarchy of Ireland from 19 July 1553 until her death. The fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, she is remembered for restoring England to Roman Catholicism after succeeding her short-lived half brother, Edward VI of England, to the English throne....
  • Bonnie Prince Charlie - Charles Edward Stuart
    Charles Edward Stuart

    Charles Edward Stuart was the exiled Jacobitism claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland. He is commonly known in English and Scots language as Bonnie Prince Charlie....
  • Brangelina - Brad Pitt
    Brad Pitt

    William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has been cited as one of the world's most attractive men and his off-screen life is widely reported....
     and Angelina Jolie
    Angelina Jolie

    Angelina Jolie is an American film actor and a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR. She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported....
  • Brillo Pad
    Brillo Pad

    Brillo Pad is a trade name for a Steel wool, used for cleaning Dishware, and made from steel wool impregnated with soap. The concept was patented in 1913, under the trademark "Brillo" ....
     - Andrew Neil
    Andrew Neil

    Andrew Ferguson Neil is a Scotland journalist and Presenter. Neil made his name at The Sunday Times where he was editing for 11 years. In 1995 he was made editor-in-chief of the Press Holdings group of newspapers, owner of The Business and The Spectator, moving to become chairman in July 2008....
  • Britannia
    Britannia

    Britannia was the term originally used by the Roman Empire to refer to the island of Great Britain. The term was later used to describe a Roman province covering much of the island, apart from the area beyond the Antonine Wall belonging to the Picts in the north, which was known as Caledonia....
     - Great Britain
    Great Britain

    Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
  • Broadway Joe - Joe Namath
    Joe Namath

    Joseph William Namath , also known as Broadway Joe or Joe Willie, is a former United States American football quarterback. He played for the University of Alabama under legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and his assistant, Howard Schnellenberger, from 1962?1964, and in the American Football League and National Football League duri...
    , AFL/NFL American Football
    American football

    American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
     player
  • Brummie
    Brummie

    File:EnglandBirmingham.svgBrummie is a colloquial term for the inhabitants, accent and dialect of Birmingham, England, as well as being a general adjective used to denote a connection with the city, locally called Brum....
     - a person from Birmingham, England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  • Buddha
    Gautama Buddha

    Siddhartha Gautama was a Spirituality teacher in the northern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. He is generally seen by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddhahood of our age....
     - Siddhartha Gautama
  • Cabbagetown
    Cabbagetown

    There are two neighborhoods named Cabbagetown:*Cabbagetown , Canada*Cabbagetown , USA*Cabbagetown , a novel by Hugh Garner about Cabbagetown in Toronto...
     - neighborhoods in Toronto, Ontario and in Atlanta, Georgia
    Atlanta, Georgia

    Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
  • Caligula
    Caligula

    Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , more commonly known by his nickname Caligula , was the third Roman Emperor, reigning from 16 March 37 until his assassination on 24 January 41....
    - Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
  • Canuck
    Canuck

    "Canuck" is a slang term for Canada....
     - Canadian, from Johnny Canuck
    Johnny Canuck

    Johnny Canuck was a Canadian cartoon hero and superhero who was created as a political cartoon in 1869 and was later re-invented, first in 1942, then in 1975....
  • Chemical Ali - Ali Hassan al-Majid
    Ali Hassan al-Majid

    Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh is a former Baath Party Iraqi Defense Minister, Interior Minister, military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service....
  • Chosin Few - US Marine survivors of Korean War
    Korean War

    The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korea and South Korea regimes, with major hostilities lasting from June 25, 1950 until the armistice signed on July 27, 1953....
     Battle of Chosin Reservoir
  • The City
    The City

    The City as a linguistic term is a generic name used in various contexts to refer to a particular city. The "City" being referenced may be apparent from context, or it may invariably refer to one particular city in certain English language-speaking regions, depending on the variety of English used....
     or The City by the Bay - San Francisco, California
    California

    California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
  • The City of Roses - Portland
    Portland, Oregon

    Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States United States, near the confluence of the Willamette River and Columbia River rivers in the state of Oregon....
    , USA
  • Cockney
    Cockney

    The term Cockney has both geographical and linguistic associations. Geographically and culturally, it often refers to working class Londoners, particularly those in the East End of London....
     - an East Londoner
  • Columbia - The United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     or The Americas
  • Comical Ali - Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
    Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf

    Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf is a former Iraqi diplomat and politician. He came to wide prominence around the world during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Iraqi Information Minister of Iraq....
    , Iraq
    Iraq

    Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
    i Information Minister during the 2003 US invasion
    2003 invasion of Iraq

    The 2003 invasion of Iraq, from March 20 to May 1, 2003, was spearheaded by the United States, backed by United Kingdom forces and smaller contingents from Australia, Spain, Poland and Denmark....
    ; also known as Baghdad Bob
  • Joe Cool
    Joe Cool

    Joe Cool could refer to:*Snoopy of Peanuts fame, whose pseudonym included Joe Cool, generally while wearing dark sunglasses and hanging around the student union....
     - Joe Montana
    Joe Montana

    For the actor with a similarly pronounced name, see Joe Mantegna.Joseph Clifford Montana, Jr., , nicknamed Joe Cool and Comeback Joe, is a retired United States American football player whose professional career in the National Football League spanned the late 1970s through the mid-1990s....
    , NFL American Football
    American football

    American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
     player
  • Craw - Iain Crawford


D-G

  • Diddy - Sean Combs
    Sean Combs

    Sean John Combs , known by his stage names Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and now Diddy, is an American record producer, rapper, actor, men's fashion designer, entrepreneur and dancer....
     Rapper, producer, actor, fashion designer, mogul
  • Digger - Australian soldier
  • The Doctor - Valentino Rossi
    Valentino Rossi

    Valentino Rossi is an Italian professional Motorcycle sport and multiple Grand Prix motorcycles World Champion. He is one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, with 8 Grand Prix World Championships to his name....
  • Dubya - George W. Bush
    George W. Bush

    George Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th List of Governors of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being United States presidential inauguration as President on January 20, 2001....
  • The Duke - John Wayne
    John Wayne

    John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....
  • The Emerald Isle
    Emerald Isle

    Emerald Isle refers to several different geographic locations:* The Emerald Isle is a poetic name for Ireland , due to its green countryside....
     - Ireland or Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
  • The Emerald City - Seattle
    Seattle, Washington

    Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
    , Washington, USA
  • Father of his country - George Washington
    George Washington

    George Washington was the leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States of the United States of Americas ....
  • The Federal City
    Federal City

    The term Federal City is a title for certain cities in Germany, Switzerland and Russia, and a historic term in the United States.In Germany, Bonn has been designated as a Federal City....
     - Washington D.C.
  • Foggy Bottom
    Foggy Bottom

    Foggy Bottom is one of the oldest 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. The area is thought to have received the name because its low elevation made it susceptible to concentrations of fog and industrial smoke, an atmospheric trait that did not prevent the neighborhood from becoming the original location of the United States Naval Ob...
    - the United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     State Department
    United States Department of State

    The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the United States Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States Federal government of the United States, similar to foreign ministries, foreign offices, ministries of external relations, etc....
  • The Fourth Estate
    Fourth Estate

    The term Fourth Estate refers to the journalism. The term goes back at least to Thomas Carlyle in the first half of the 19th century. Thomas Macaulay used it in 1828....
     - the press
  • Frisco
    Frisco

    Frisco can refer to:Places in the United States*Frisco, Colorado*Frisco, Louisiana*Frisco, Missouri*Frisco, North Carolina*Frisco, Texas...
     - derogatory term for San Francisco, California
  • Garrincha
    Garrincha

    Manuel Francisco dos Santos , known by the nickname "Garrincha" , was a Brazilian football right Midfielder#Winger and Striker who helped the Brazil national football team win the Football World Cup of 1958 FIFA World Cup and 1962 FIFA World Cup....
     - Manoel Francisco dos Santos
  • The General - Irish Criminal Martin Cahill
    Martin Cahill

    Martin Cahill was a prominent Republic of Ireland criminal from Dublin.Cahill generated a certain notoriety in the media, which referred to him by the sobriquet "The General"....
  • Genghis Khan
    Genghis Khan

    Genghis Khan , born , was the founder, Khan and Khagan of the Mongol Empire, the World's largest empires contiguous empire in history....
     - Temüjin
  • Geordie
    Geordie

    Geordie is a List of regional nicknames for a person from the Tyneside region of England, or the name of the dialect of English language spoken by these people....
     - a person from Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • God's Own Country
    God's Own Country

    God?s Own Country, often abbreviated to Godzone or less often Godzown, is a phrase that has been used for more than 120 years by New Zealanders to describe their homeland....
     - Kerala
    Kerala

    Kerala is a Indian Union States and territories of India located in the southwestern part of India. With an Arabian Sea coastline on the west, it is bordered on the north by Karnataka and by Tamil Nadu on the south and east....
    , New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
    , Rhodesia
    Rhodesia

    Rhodesia was the name adopted when the formerly British colonies of Southern Rhodesia declared itself independent on 11 November 1965. The name was also used with the establishment of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979....
     or Yorkshire
    Yorkshire

    Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
  • The Godfather of Soul - James Brown
    James Brown

    James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  • The Golden Jet - Bobby Hull NHL/WHA
    World Hockey Association

    The World Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey league that operated in North America from 1972-73 WHA season to 1978-79 WHA season....
     hockey player
  • GOP (Grand Old Party)- Republican Party (United States)
    Republican Party (United States)

    The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
  • Gotham
    Gotham

    Gotham may refer to:Real places:* Gotham, Nottinghamshire, England** Wise Men of Gotham, an early name given to the people of Gotham, Nottinghamshire...
     - New York
    New York

    The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
  • The Governator - Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and Politics of the United States, currently serving as the List of Governors of California Governor of California of the state of California....
    , 38th Governor of California
    California

    California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
  • The Great Communicator - Ronald Reagan, The 40th President of the United States of America
  • The Great Emancipator - Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
    , The 16th President of the United States of America
  • The Great One
    The Great One

    The Great One may refer to:* Wayne Gretzky , Canadian ice hockey player* Roberto Clemente , Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player* Jackie Gleason , American comedian and actor...
     - Wayne Gretzky, WHA
    World Hockey Association

    The World Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey league that operated in North America from 1972-73 WHA season to 1978-79 WHA season....
    /NHL hockey player
  • Grits - a media term for the Liberal Party of Canada
    Liberal Party of Canada

    The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is a major political party in Canada. The party is positioned in the centre-left of the Politics of Canada....
  • The Gray Lady - The New York Times
    The New York Times

    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"?named for its staid appearance and style?is regarded as a national newspaper of record....
  • The Great Commoner - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
    William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

    William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Kent Privy Council of Great Britain was a Kingdom of Great Britain British Whig Party statesman who achieved his greatest fame as a Secretary of State during the Seven Years' War, as known in Great Britain and Asia and who was later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
     ("Pitt the Elder") or William Jennings Bryan
    William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan was the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, 1900 and 1908, a lawyer, and the 41st United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson....


H-M

  • Hanoi Jane - Jane Fonda
    Jane Fonda

    Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
  • Honest Abe - Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
  • Iceman
    Iceman

    Iceman may refer to:* Iceman , a vendor who sells ice from a wagon or cart* ?tzi the Iceman, the oldest known mummy, from about 3300 BC, found in 1991...
     - George Gervin
    George Gervin

    George "The Iceman" Gervin is a retired American professional basketball player; a shooting guard for the American Basketball Association's Virginia Squires and San Antonio Spurs and the National Basketball Association's San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls....
    , ABA
    American Basketball Association

    The American Basketball Association was a professional basketball league founded in 1967. The ABA ceased to exist with the ABA-NBA merger in 1976....
    /NBA
    National Basketball Association

    The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
     Basketball player; Kimi Räikkönen
    Kimi Räikkönen

    Kimi-Matias R?ikk?nen , nicknamed Iceman, is a Finnish Formula One race car driver, currently driving for Scuderia Ferrari. He was the 2007 Formula One List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions....
    , Formula 1 racing driver
  • Joe the Plumber
    Joe the Plumber

    Joe the Plumber is a moniker applied to Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher during the United States presidential election, 2008. Wurzelbacher is a celebrity, author and former plumber....
     - Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, an American plumbing contractor who was cited as an example of a middle class American during the 2008 U.S. presidential election season
    United States presidential election, 2008

    The United States presidential election of 2008 was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. It was the 56th consecutive wikt:quadrennial United States United States presidential election....
     by Republican
    Republican Party (United States)

    The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
     nominee for president
    Presidential nominee

    In United States politics and government, the term presidential nominee has two distinct meanings.The first is the person chosen by the primary elections and caucus-goers of a political party to be the party's nominee for President of the United States....
    , John McCain
    John McCain

    John Sidney McCain III is the senior senator United States United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican Party presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election....
  • John Bull
    John Bull

    John Bull is a national personification of the United Kingdom in general and England in particular, originating in the creation of Dr. John Arbuthnot in 1712, and popularised first by British print makers and then overseas by illustrators and writers such as American cartoonist Thomas Nast and Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, author of '...
     - England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
    , or an Englishman
    Englishman

    Englishman may refer to:*English people*grey partridge* Jenny-Bea Englishman, real name of the Canadien singer Esthero...
  • Joltin' Joe - Joe Dimaggio
    Joe DiMaggio

    Joseph Paul DiMaggio A member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, DiMaggio was a 3-time MLB Most Valuable Player Award winner and 13-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game ....
    , Baseball
    Baseball

    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
     player; former husband of Marilyn Monroe
    Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and a sex symbol.After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946....
  • Kaká
    Kaka

    The Kaka, Nestor meridionalis, is a parrot endemism to the forests of New Zealand....
     - Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite
  • The King - actor Clark Gable
    Clark Gable

    Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
    ; entertainer Graham Kennedy
    Graham Kennedy

    Graham Cyril Kennedy, Order of Australia was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called "Gra Gra" and "The King" of Australian television....
  • The King (of all Media) - Howard Stern
    Howard Stern

    Howard Allan Stern is an American radio presenter and media personality, best known for hosting The Howard Stern Show, currently an uncensored talk radio show that airs on Howard 100 on SIRIUS XM Radio....
  • The King (of NASCAR
    NASCAR

    The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
    ) - Richard Petty
    Richard Petty

    Richard Lee Petty is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the Winston Cup Series. "The King", as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the Nascar Championship seven times , winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 rac...
  • The King (of Rock and Roll) - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • The King of Pop - Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
  • Land of Five rivers - Punjab
  • The Left Coast - California
    California

    California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
    , Oregon
    Oregon

    Oregon is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The area was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before the arrival of traders, explorers and settlers....
     and Washington
    Washington

    Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
    , said regarding politics.
  • Limey
    Limey

    Limey is an old USA and Canada slang nickname for the British people, originally referring to British sailors. The term is believed to derive from lime juice, referring to the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy practice of supplying lime juice to British sailors to prevent scurvy....
     - a national epithet for the English, mainly applied by Americans.
  • The Lion of the Round Top - Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain, commander of the 20th Maine Regiment
    20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment

    The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a military unit of the United States Army during the American Civil War, most famous for its defense of Little Round Top at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg....
    , American Civil War
    American Civil War

    The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
  • The Lou - The City of St. Louis, Missouri
    St. Louis, Missouri

    St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
  • The Lucky Country - Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  • Mackem
    Mackem

    Mackem is a term that refers to the accent, dialect and people of the Wearside area, or more specifically Sunderland, a city in North East England....
     - a person from Sunderland
    Sunderland

    Sunderland is a city in Tyne and Wear, England. It was formerly a county borough but now forms part of the City of Sunderland. It is situated at the mouth of the River Wear....
  • Madiba - Nelson Mandela
    Nelson Mandela

    Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first President of South Africa of South Africa to be elected in a universal suffrage democratic election, serving in the office from 1994?99....
  • Man's best friend - dog
    Dog

    The dog is a domesticated subspecies of the Gray Wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties....
    s
  • Manitas de Plata
    Manitas de Plata

    Manitas de Plata . was in the 1960s one of the most renowned flamenco guitarists in the world, and continues to be highly esteemed by fans....
     - Flamenco
    Flamenco

    Flamenco is a Spain term that refers both to a musical genre, known for its intricate rapid passages, and a dance genre characterized by its audible footwork....
     guitarist
    Guitarist

    A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
     Ricardo Baliardo
  • The Material Girl
    Material Girl

    "Material Girl" is the second single and signature song by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her 2nd studio album, Like a Virgin, and was released on January 30, 1985 by Sire Records....
     - Madonna
    Madonna (entertainer)

    Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
  • The Myth
    Sergio Oliva

    Sergio Oliva is a bodybuilder known as "The Myth". This sobriquet was given to him by bodybuilder/writer Rick Wayne. Wayne had begun calling Oliva "The Myth" ""....
     - Bodybuilding great Sergio Oliva
    Sergio Oliva

    Sergio Oliva is a bodybuilder known as "The Myth". This sobriquet was given to him by bodybuilder/writer Rick Wayne. Wayne had begun calling Oliva "The Myth" ""....
  • Mahatma
    Mahatma

    Mahatma is Sanskrit for "Great Soul" ; it is similar in usage to the modern Christian term saint. This epithet is commonly applied to prominent people like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Mahatma Jyotirao Phule....
     Gandhi - Mohandas K. Gandhi
    Mahatma Gandhi

    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha?resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence?which led India to Indian independence movement and inspired movements for civi...
  • Mother's Ruin - Gin
    Gin

    Gin is a distilled beverage flavoured with juniper berries. Distilled gin is made by redistilling neutral grain spirit and raw cane sugar which has been flavoured with juniper berries....
  • Murasaki Shikibu
    Murasaki Shikibu

    Murasaki Shikibu , or Lady Murasaki as she is often known in English, was a Japanese novelist, poet, and a maid of honor of the Emperor of Japan during the Heian Period....
     - author of The Tale of Genji
    The Tale of Genji

    is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period....
    , whose real name is unknown
  • Mr. Hockey - Gordie Howe
    Gordie Howe

    Gordon "Gordie" Howe, Order of Canada is a retired professional ice hockey player from Canada who played for the Detroit Red Wings and Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League , and the Houston Aeros and Hartford Whalers in the World Hockey Association ....
    , NHL/WHA
    World Hockey Association

    The World Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey league that operated in North America from 1972-73 WHA season to 1978-79 WHA season....
     Hockey
    Hockey

    Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round, rubber or heavy plastic disc called a Hockey puck, into the opponent's net or goal, using a hockey stick....
     player


N-S

  • Newfie
    Newfie

    Newfie is a Colloquialism, and sometimes pejorative, term used in Canada for someone who is from Newfoundland and Labrador. It appears in a 1942 dictionary of slang; at the time, 'Newfie' was used as often to refer to Newfoundland itself as to Newfoundlanders ....
     - slang for Newfoundland
    Newfoundland and Labrador

    Newfoundland and Labrador is a Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada, on the country's Atlantic Ocean coast in northeastern North America....
    , Canada
  • The Next One
    The Next One

    The Next One is a nickname that has belonged to the following ice hockey players:* Eric Lindros* Sidney Crosby* Alexander Ovechkin* John Tavares ...
     - Sidney Crosby
    Sidney Crosby

    Sidney Patrick Crosby Order of Nova Scotia is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and Captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League ....
    , NHL hockey player
  • The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street
    Threadneedle Street

    Threadneedle Street is a road in the City of London, leading from an intersection with Poultry, Cornhill, London, King William Street and Lombard Street, London, to Bishopsgate....
     - the Bank of England
    Bank of England

    The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and is the model on which most modern, large central banks have been based. Since 1946 it has been a Nationalisation institution....
  • Old Nick - Satan
    Satan

    Satan is a term that originates from the Abrahamic religions, being traditionally applied to an angel in Judeo-Christian belief, and to a Genie in Islamic belief....
  • Old St. Nick - Santa
  • The Old Bailey - The Central Criminal Court in England
  • The Old Pretender - James Francis Edward Stuart
    James Francis Edward Stuart

    Prince James, Prince of Wales was the son of the deposed James II of England. As such, he claimed the English, Scottish and Irish thrones from the death of his father in 1701, when he was proclaimed king of England, Scotland and Ireland by his cousin Louis XIV of France....
  • The Paris of the West - San Francisco
    San Francisco, California

    The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
    , USA
  • Pelé
    Pelé

    Edison Arantes do Nascimento, Order of the British Empire , best known by his nickname Pel? is a Brazilian former Association football player, rated by many as the greatest footballer of all time....
     - Edson Arantes do Nascimento
  • Perfidious Albion
    Perfidious Albion

    "Perfidious Albion" is a hostile epithet for England or the United Kingdom: Perfidy signifies one who does not keep his faith or word, while Albion is the Ancient Greek name for Great Britain....
     - Great Britain
    Great Britain

    Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
  • Peripatetics - Aristotelian
    Aristotle

    Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
     philosophers
  • Pom - An English Person (used in Australia and New Zealand)
  • The Purple People Eaters
    Purple People Eaters

    The Purple People Eaters was the nickname of the Minnesota Vikings American football team's defensive line of the late 1960s to the late 1970s, when the Vikings played in four Super Bowls....
     - The Minnesota Vikings
    Minnesota Vikings

    The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings compete in the NFC North of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
     defensive line of the late 1960s to the late 1970s
  • Ponton
    Mercedes-Benz Ponton

    The Ponton was Daimler-Benz's first totally-new Mercedes-Benz series of passenger vehicles produced after World War II. In July 1953, the cars replaced the pre-war-designed Mercedes-Benz W136 series and were the bulk of the automaker's production through 1959, though some models lasted through 1962....
     - Mercedes-Benz
    Mercedes-Benz

    Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coach es, and trucks. It is currently a division of the parent company, Daimler AG , after previously being owned by Daimler-Benz....
     models made between 1953 and 1962
  • Prince of the Humanists
    Humanism

    Humanism is a broad category of ethics that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal human qualities, particularly rationalism, without resorting to the supernatural or alleged divine authority from religious texts....
     - Desiderius Erasmus
    Desiderius Erasmus

    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Netherlands Renaissance humanist and Roman Catholic Church Christian theology. His scholarly name Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus comprises the following three elements: the Latin noun desiderium ; the Greek adjective ???s???? meaning "desired", and, in the form Erasmus, also the name of a St....
  • The Queen of the Arabian Sea - Cochin
  • Rats of Tobruk - the garrison of Tobruk
    Tobruk

    Tobruk or Tubruq is a town, seaport, municipality, and peninsula in northeastern Libya, near the border with Egypt, in North Africa. The town of Tobruk has a population of 110,000 ,...
     during the Siege of Tobruk
    Siege of Tobruk

    The Siege of Tobruk was a lengthy confrontation between Axis Powers and Allies of World War II forces in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II....
     in World War II
    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
  • Rivaldo
    Rivaldo

    Rivaldo V?tor Borba Ferreira , commonly known as Rivaldo, is regarded as one of the best Brazilian professional football players of all time, currently playing for FC Bunyodkor, on a multi-million dollar contract, in the Uzbek League....
     - Vítor Borba Ferreira
  • The Rat Pack - A group of American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     singers and entertainers from the late 1950s to the early 1970s
  • Ronaldinho
    Ronaldinho

    Ronaldo de Assis Moreira , commonly known as Ronaldinho or Ronaldinho Ga?cho, is a Brazilian association football who plays forItalian Serie A side AC Milan and the Brazil national football team....
     - Ronaldo de Assis Moreira
  • Sassenach
    Sassenach

    Sassenach is a word used chiefly by the Scottish people to designate an Englishman. It derives from the Scottish Gaelic Sasunnach meaning, originally, "Saxons", from the Latin "Saxons"; it was also formerly applied by G?idhealtachd to Scottish Lowlands....
     - an English person (used by Highland Scots)
  • Satchmo
    Satchmo

    Satchmo may refer to:* Louis Armstrong , an American jazz musician and singer* Satchmo , an open source online store management system using the Django web application framework...
     - Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong

    Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
  • Second City
    Second city

    The second city of a country is the city that is the second-most important, usually after the Capital or first city.Criteria for second city status include population size, economic or commercial importance, political importance, or some cultural sense....
     - Chicago, USA
  • Scouser - a Liverpudlian
    Liverpool

    Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
  • Ship of the Desert - Camel
  • Sin City
    Sin City (description)

    Sin City is a nickname for an urban area that caters to various vices, perhaps the most well known example being Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. These vices may be legal or illegal activities which are tolerated....
     - Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas, Nevada

    Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
    , USA
  • Slick Willy - U.S. President Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton

    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the fifteenth Democrat elected to that office....
  • Slowhand - Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton

    Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
  • Soapy Sam - Samuel Wilberforce
    Samuel Wilberforce

    Samuel Wilberforce was an England bishop in the Church of England, third son of William Wilberforce. Known as "Soapy Sam", Wilberforce was one of the greatest public speakers of his day....
    , Bishop of Oxford
    Oxford

    Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
  • Soapy Smith
    Soapy Smith

    Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II was an American con artist and gangster who had a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver, Colorado, Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska from 1879 to 1898....
     - Jefferson Randolph Smith II, infamous nineteenth century U.S. crime boss.
  • Stormy - David Weathers
    David Weathers

    John David Weathers is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. He bats and throws right-handed. He attended Motlow State Community College in Moore County, Tennessee and was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 3rd round of the major league baseball draft....
  • Sweet Lou
    Sweet Lou

    Sweet Lou may refer to:*Lou Piniella, a Major League Baseball manager and former player; or*Lou Hudson, a former All-Star basketball player...
     - Lou Piniella
    Lou Piniella

    Louis Victor Piniella is the current manager of the Chicago Cubs and a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He has been nicknamed "Sweet Lou," both for his swing as a major league hitter and, facetiously, to describe his demeanor as a player and manager....
    , Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
     manager and former player


T-Z

  • teddy bear
    Teddy bear

    The teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear. It is an enduring, traditional form of a stuffed animal, often serving the purpose of comforting children....
     - stuffed toy bear named after Theodore Roosevelt
    Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt , also known as T.R., and to the public as Teddy, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....
  • Tinseltown - Hollywood, California, USA
  • T.O. - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
  • Tommy Atkins
    Tommy Atkins

    Tommy Atkins is a term for a common soldier in the British Army that was already well established in the nineteenth century, but is particularly associated with World War I....
     - a British soldier
  • Tomkat
    TomKat

    Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, commonly referred to by the portmanteaus "TomKat" or "Tom-Kat", are an United States celebrity supercouple whose relationship attracts a great deal of worldwide media attention....
     - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
  • Tory
    Tory

    In the political tradition of some List of countries where English is an official language, the term Tory may refer to a variety of Political party and creeds since it was originally used in the late 17th century to describe opponents to the Whig Party ....
     - a member or supporter of the British
    Conservative Party (UK)

    The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
     or Canadian
    Conservative Party of Canada

    The Conservative Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Tories, is a major political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada....
     Conservative Party
  • The Teflon Don - mobster John Gotti
    John Gotti

    John Joseph Gotti, Jr. was the crime boss of the Gambino crime family after the murder of the previous boss Paul Castellano. He became widely known for his outspoken personality and flamboyant style that eventually caused his downfall....
  • Tricky Dick - President Richard Nixon
  • Turd Blossom
    Turd Blossom

    Turd Blossom is a Texas term for a flower which grows from a pile of Feces. The term has gained notoriety in the United States, as reportedly this is one of former President of the United States George W....
     - George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove
    Karl Rove

    Karl Christian Rove was Deputy White House Chief of Staff to former President of the United States George W. Bush until his resignation on August 31, 2007....
  • Uncle Sam
    Uncle Sam

    Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States , and sometimes more specifically of the American government, with the first usage of the term dating from the War of 1812 and the first illustration dating from 1852....
     - the U.S.A. or sometimes the government
  • Weegie - a person from Glasgow
  • Westminster
    Palace of Westminster

    The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, in London, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom meet....
     - the British Parliament
  • Westminster Abbey
    Westminster Abbey

    The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic architecture Church , in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster....
     - The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster
  • Whig
    British Whig Party

    The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
     - a member of the late 17th to mid 19th Century British "Country Party"
  • Whitehall
    Whitehall

    Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, England. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, towards traditional Charing Cross, now at the southern end of Trafalgar Square and marked by the statue of Charles I of England, which is often regarded as the heart of London....
     - the British government including Parliament but excluding the monarchy
  • The Windy City - Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • X-22 - backgammon champion Paul Magriel
    Paul Magriel

    Paul David Magriel Jr. is an United States professional backgammon player, poker player and author based in Las Vegas, Nevada....
    .
  • Yardbird - jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker
    Charlie Parker

    Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
     (Also shortened simply to "Bird")
  • Yankee
    Yankee

    The term Yankee, sometimes abbreviated to Yank, has a few related meanings, often referring to someone of United States origin or heritage. Within the United States its meaning has varied over time....
     - (derogatory in some contexts) a person from the United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     (usual usage outside the U.S.) or from the Northeast
    Northeastern United States

    The Northeast is a region of the United States. According to the definition used by the United States Census Bureau, the Northeast region consists of nine states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania....
     or New England
    New England

    New England is a region of the United States located in the northeastern corner of the country, bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada and New York State, and consisting of the modern U.S....
     (in American
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     usage).
  • Yank (a short form of "Yankee") - a person from the United States
  • The Young Pretender - Charles Edward Stuart
    Charles Edward Stuart

    Charles Edward Stuart was the exiled Jacobitism claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland. He is commonly known in English and Scots language as Bonnie Prince Charlie....


See also

  • List of monarchs by nickname
    List of monarchs by nickname

    This is a list of monarchs sorted by nickname.This list is divided into two parts:* Cognomens: Also called cognomina. These are names which are appended before or after the person's name, like the epithet, or Roman victory titles....
  • List of nicknames of European Royalty and Nobility
    List of nicknames of European Royalty and Nobility

    This list has been split into smaller lists:* List of nicknames of European royalty and nobility: A* List of nicknames of European royalty and nobility: B...
  • List of United States Presidential nicknames
    List of United States Presidential nicknames

    This is a list of United States Presidential nicknames....
  • Lists of nicknames in football (soccer)
    Lists of nicknames in football (soccer)

    This is a WP:list of lists of the use of nicknames in association football....
  • List of basketball nicknames
    List of basketball nicknames

    This is a list of nicknames in the sport of basketball. Most are related to professional basketball, although a few notable nicknames from the college basketball game are included....
  • List of North American football nicknames
    List of North American football nicknames

    This is a list of nicknames in the sports of American football and Canadian football....
  • List of sportspeople by nickname
    List of sportspeople by nickname

    This is a list of sportspeople by nickname....
  • Metonymy
    Metonymy

    Metonymy is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept....
  • Moniker
    Moniker

    "Moniker" is another term for a "nickname", "pseudonym", or "cognomen."Typically, the title is used as a personal or professional name, instead of the person's given name, for works of art, music, books, or performances....
  • Nickname
    Nickname

    A nickname is a descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of a person, place or thing. Another class of nickname is the familiar or truncated form of the proper name, such as Bob, Bobby, Rob, Robbie, and Bert for Robert, more properly called a short name....
  • Nicknames of jazz musicians
    Nicknames of jazz musicians

    Nicknames are common among jazz musicians. Nicknames and sobriquets can also sometimes become stage names, and there are several cases of performers being known almost exclusively by their nicknames as opposed to their given names....
  • Offensive terms per nationality
  • Pop icon
    Pop icon

    A pop icon is a celebrity whose fame in popular culture constitutes a defining characteristic of a given society or era. Although there is no single definitive test for establishing "pop icon" status, such status is usually associated with elements such as longevity, ubiquity, and distinction....