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A nickname is a name your friends or family give you that is not the name on your papers. It often comes from how you look, what you love, or something you once did — Red for red hair, Tiny for the tall kid, because people like a joke. Some nicknames are loving; some are teasing. Grown-ups keep them too. It is not the same as a fake name you use to hide, and it is not automatically your online name, unless people really call you that in life. You can also use it as a verb: they nicknamed him. The history is a bit funny. Hundreds of years ago English speakers said an eke-name, meaning an extra name (eke meant also or in addition). People heard an eke as a neke, and the n stuck to the word. That is why we now say nickname.
組成Originally eke (extra, additional) + name. People heard an eke-name as a neke-name, and the n joined the word.
同家族的字
- namethe second half, still visible in the word
- ekethe old word for extra that used to begin it, before the n was pulled across
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
nicknamenoun/ˈnɪkneɪm/
- 1
A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.
- "The Big Apple" is a common nickname for New York City.
- […] Plato, who was named Aristocles after his grandfather, but received from his gymnastic master the nickname Πλάτων (from πλάτυς, broad), which practically superseded his real name.
- 2
A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing.
- My name is Jonathan, but I go by my nickname, Johnny.
nicknameverb/ˈnɪkneɪm/
- 1
To give a nickname to (a person or thing).
- Gerald, nicknamed "Jerry", was usually a very cheerful person.
- He was nicknamed Chemical Ali by Iraqi Kurds, who also called him the Butcher of Kurdistan
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。