nickname现在分词

1. 绰号，诨名，外号
2. 教名的略称
3. 爱称
4. 代号
5. 俗称
6. 昵称，小名

1. 给...加诨名，给...起绰号，给...取外号
2. 用诨名称呼
3. 误称，叫错名字
4. 绰号叫

1. 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"
   

2. a descriptive name for a place or thing;

   "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
   

1. give a nickname to

1.绰号;诨号;外号
Anickname is an informal name for someone or something.

e.g. Red got hisnickname for his red hair.
“红毛”的绰号源于他的红头发。

2.给…起绰号;把…俗称为
If younickname someone or something, you give them an informal name.

e.g. When he got older I nicknamed him Little Alf...
当他大一点时，我给他起了个“小阿尔夫”的绰号。
e.g. Which newspaper was once nicknamed The Thunderer?
哪家报纸一度被称为“怒吼者”？

1. She called me by my nickname.
   她叫我的外号。
2. Rob is a nickname of Robert.Rob
   是 Robert的昵称。

• When he suddenly grew much taller..he earned the nickname of 'Ostrich'.

  出自：M. Scammell

• ☆ 15世纪中期进入英语，直接源自古英语的eaca，意为增加。