nickname

英 ['n?kne?m] 美['n?k'nem]

CET6TEM4IELTS考研中低頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?nicknames;第三人稱單數:?nicknames;過去式:?nicknamed;過去分詞:?nicknamed;現在分詞:?nicknaming;

nickname 綽號，昵稱

錯分裂詞，來自an eke name,額外的名字，eke,增加，詞源同augment.

nickname: nickname: [14] A nickname is etymologically an ‘additional name’. The word was originally ekename, whose eke ‘addition’ was a derivative of the verb eke (as in ‘eke out’). But by the 15th century an ekename was becoming misinterpreted as a nekename – hence nickname (the same process produced newt [15] from ewt, ancestor of modern English eft ‘newt’, and the reverse happened to adder, apron, and umpire).
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nickname (n.): mid-15c., misdivision of ekename (c. 1300), an eke name, literally "an additional name," from Old English eaca "an increase," related to eacian "to increase" (cognate with Old Norse auknafn, Swedish ?knamn, Danish ?genavn; see eke; also see N). As a verb from 1530s. Related: Nicknamed; nicknaming.

1. The vital clue to the killer's identity was his nickname, Peanuts.: 查明殺手身份的重要線索是他的外號叫“花生”.

2. Andrew roared with delight when he heard Rachel's nickname for the baby.: 安德魯聽到雷切爾給嬰兒起的綽號時，不禁高興得大笑起來。

3. His family's Cantonese nickname for him translates as Never Sits Still.: 家人為他起的廣東話綽號意思是NeverSitsStill（從來坐不住）。