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A nickname is a name of a person or thing other than its proper name. It may either substitute or be added to the proper name. It may be a familiar or truncated form of the proper name, such as Bob, Bobby, Rob, Robbie, Robin, and Bert for Robert.

The term hypocoristic or "pet name" is used to refer to a nickname of affection between those in love or with a close emotional bond, compared with a term of endearment. The term diminutive name refers to nicknames that convey smallness of the names, e.g., referring to children. The distinction between the two is often blurred.

As a concept, it is distinct from both pseudonym and stage name, and also from title (for example, City of Fountains), although there may be overlap in these concepts.

A nickname is sometimes considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can often be a form of ridicule.

Etymology: 1440, misdivision of ekename (1303), an eke name, literally "an additional name," from Old English eaca "an increase," related to eacian "to increase".

In Viking societies, many people had nicknames heiti, viðrnefni or uppnefi which were used in addition to, or instead of their family names. In some circumstances the giving of a nickname had a special status in Viking society in that it created a relationship between the name maker and the recipient of the nickname, to the extent that the creation of a nickname also often entailed a formal ceremony and an exchange of gifts.

Computing In the context of information technology, a nickname (or technically a nick) is a common synonym for a screenname or handle.

Nick is a term originally used to identify a person in a system for synchronous conferencing. In computer networks it has become a common practice for every person to also have one or more nicknames for the purposes of anonymity, to avoid ambiguity or simply because the natural name or technical address would be too long to type or take too much space on the Computer display.

A nickname may also be used in the sense of a User (computing) on any system that requires a logging (computer security), such as a website or a private computer network. Nicknames are routinely employed to enable a certain level of computer security.

Performing arts Many writers, performing artists and actors have nicknames, which may develop into a stage name or pseudonym. A bardic name may also result from a nickname.

Nicknames for people

They may reference a person's physical characteristics.

In English

Tubs, Chubby, or Porker McChubbs for a fat person (generally offensive)
Four-Eyes for a person with glasses (mildly offensive)

In Spanish-speaking cultures

Flaco (thin) or
Palito (little stick)
El Gordo (the fat guy)

It may allude to a person's mental characteristics, (though often used sarcastically):

Encyclopedia, as in Donald Sobol's fictional child detective Encyclopedia Brown
Einstein, referring to the famous physicist.
Sherlock, in reference to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
Brainiac (comics), as in the fictional DC Comics character

They may refer to the relationship with the person. This is a term of endearment

A nickname can also originate from someone's real name.These are usually used to make names shorter and thus easier to say.

CJ for someone whose initials are C.J.
'Thommo' for an Andrew Thompson

It may relate to a specific incident or action.

Examples: Capability Brown was so called because he used the word "capability" instead of "possibility". Other examples include: Ali Hassan al-Majid and Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf. Many fictional characters have nicknames relating to events: Examples include the Char Aznable, Shin Matsunaga, Andrew Waltfeld and Mu La Flaga.

It may compare the person with a famous or fictional character. Examples:

Napoleon or Adolf Hitler for someone with a dictatorial manner

It may be related to their place of origin or place of residence. Example:

Gloucester, Paul from Gloucester or PFG for someone named Paul who comes from a town called Gloucester, New South Wales.

It may refer to a person's political affiliation. Examples:

Dipper for a member of Canada's New Democratic Party.
Tory for a person affiliated with the Conservative Party (UK)'s or Canada's Canadian conservatism Party.

A famous person's nickname may be unique to them:

Tippecanoe for William Henry Harrison
Dubya for George W. Bush, an exaggeration of Texan pronunciation of 'w', Bush's middle initial.
Opa for the Dutch lifesaving Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij-folk hero Dorus Rijkers. Dorus became a Grandfather, (Dutch:"Opa"), at the age of 23 (by the marriage to a widow with eight children), and soon everybody called him Opa.
Jack The Dripper for painter Jackson Pollock who created many of his works by dripping paint over horizontal canvas
Gazza for English footballer Paul Gascoigne (though used more widely in Australia for Gary) and similar "zza" forms (Hezza, John Prescott, etc) for other prominent personalities whose activities are frequently reported in the British press
Champion Taylor for Mark Hanson (In reference to the band Hanson)
SABO for Adam Sabatini

Nicknames of geographical places Particularly with geographical places, it is important to distinguish between nickname and title. A nickname is almost always a brief term that is either friendly or derogatory and can be substituted for the real name at will. A title is usually a multi-word term, often created for promotional purposes, sometimes created as a putdown, that cannot be substituted for the real name at will.

Most of the "city nicknames" are not nicknames; they are titles. For example, Kansas City is titled (or dubbed) 'Heart of America' and 'City of Fountains'; it is nicknamed KC. People will use KC very frequently in everyday speech as a friendly substitute for Kansas City; it is the popular nickname for the city. By contrast, probably only the tourist industry ever uses the term 'City of Fountains'; this is a title, not a nickname. See List of country nicknames

Regions

The Wet Coast - British Columbia, Canada; a play on "The West Coast" because that area of the country rains a lot
Red states - states that generally support Republican or more conservative candidates for national public office
Blue states - states that generally support Democrat or more liberal candidates for public office
The Cow Belt - also known as the "Hindi Belt," the area of northern India through which the Ganges flows, consisting principally of the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, considered the heartland of Hinduism and the Hindi language
The Deep South, Bible Belt - Southern U.S.
The Dirty South (usually the South Eastern States but not limited to the whole Old South, usually used among rappers and rap fans)
The Left Coast - the states of Washington, Oregon, and California in the United States; due to their location on most maps and general support of "the left" (liberal political ideology).
Bridge of the World, Heart of the Universe (Spanish: Puente del Mundo, Corazón del Universo) - Republic of Panama; due to the convergence of the principal trade routes through its Panama Canal
The Third Coast- the cities and states that are on the Gulf Coast of the United States. (The term is also used in the film industry to refer to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex due to a large number of movies, commercials, etc. being filmed there – the "First Coast" is implied to be Hollywood and the "Second Coast" being New York.)
Bavaria on the North Sea - Flanders, due to its conservatism and catholicism

Nicknames for companies

"Auntie" - British Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
"Barfy's" - Arby's
"The Beeb" - British Broadcasting Corporation
"B-Dubs" - Buffalo Wild Wings
"Big Bird" - Giant Eagle, A U.S. supermarket chain
"Big Blue" - IBM, computer hardware/software manufacturer
"Beammer" - BMW cars
"The Big Eye" - CBS, broadcasting network
"The Peacock Network" (in reference to its logo) - NBC, broadcasting network
"Bloblaws" or "Blah-Blahs" - Loblaws, Canadian supermarket chain
"Bloodbath and Beyond" - Bed Bath and Beyond
"Bugger King" or "Bugger Fling" or "Burger Death" or "BK" or "Murder King" or "B.K. Lounge"- Burger King, global fast-food chain
"Chevy" - Chevrolet, an automobile company
"Crappy Tire" or "Canadian pif-paf" - Canadian Tire, a Canadian hardgoods retailer
"D. J's" - David Jones, Australian Up-Market Retailer
"Del Chate" (pronounced Chaw-Tee), Delta Co- Del Taco
"Sleazy Jet" - EasyJet, a low cost European airline
"Four-bucks", "Bucks", "Starby's" - Starbucks
"Fuckruckers" or "Fudd's" or "Buttfuckers" or "Ruddfuckers"- Fuddruckers
"Golden Slacks" - Goldman Sachs
"The Golden Arches" - Mcdonalds
"Great Yellow Father" - Eastman Kodak
"Hardly Normal" - Harvey Norman, an Australian electrical goods outlet
"H. J's" - Hungry Jacks (Australian version of Burger King)
"Ho-Jo" - Howard Johnson's
"Home Despot" - The Home Depot, a giant hardware store
"Jacques Penné" or "Pennies" - JCPenney clothing stores
"Jack in the Crack" or "Jack Off (street name)" "Shat-in-the Crack" or "Shit in the Box"- Jack-in-the-Box
"Kentaco Hut" - KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut combo restaurants.
"Kentucky Fried Crap", "K-Fry", "K-Fried", "Kan't Fuckin' Cook" - KFC, American fried chicken restaurant chain
"K-World" - a nickname used in Michigan for the grocery store,Kroger.
"The Little Thief" - Little Chef, UK roadside restaurant
"LockMart" or "Lock-Mart" - Lockheed Martin Corporation, Aerospace contractor
"Long Juan Silvers" - Long John Silver's and Taco Bell combo restaurants
"Lose-It" - Loomis, Canadian courier company
"Ma Bell" - AT&T, American telephone company
"Marks & Sparks" - Marks & Spencer, British department store chain
"Mickey D's", "Maccy D", "Golden Arches", "The Golden Nightmare", "McDeath", "Rotten Ronnie's", "McDogchow", "McDick's", "McConvicts", "double-yuck", "American Embassy", "MacDo" mainly in France "Smack-Donald's" - McDonald's, global fast-food chain.
"Macca's" "Scottish restaurant"- (In Australia) McDonald's, global fast-food chain.
"Monkey Ward", "Mental Ward" - Montgomery Wards defunct Department Store chain
"M$," various versions of "Micro" plus an expression with or without various $-type signs; i.e. "Microsloth,"; or "Criticism of Microsoft" - Microsoft, software company
"Mothercorp" - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian national broadcaster
"Needless Markup" - Neiman Marcus, American upscale specialty retail department store
"Namcy" - Nationwide Advantage Mortgage Company
"Ninety", "Ninty" or "The Big N;" usually by fans or hardcore gamers - Nintendo, Japan-based video game company
"Northworst" - Northwest Airlines
"NO-VAcation" - the Nova Group, a Japanese eikaiwa (English conversation school) chain, as it is known by many of its former employees
"Office Despot" - Office Depot, Chain of office supply stores
"OOPS", "UnderPaid Slaves", "United Package Smashers" - United Parcel Service, American courier service
"Pizza Slut", "Pizza Smut" - Pizza Hut, Global pizza chain
"Pondegrosa" - Ponderosa Steakhouse
"Scan dick", "Scandalic" - Scandic
"Skandial" - Skandia
"Slev," "Sleven" or "Sevies" - 7-Eleven
"Snot Gothic", "Goth Stoppit", "Goth'n'Go", "Whiny Hole", "Hot Profit" - Hot Topic
"Sooner-or-Later" - Purolator Courier, Canadian courier company
"Tar-jais" ("r" is rolled; "jais" in French is pronounced - "zhay"), "Red Spot Boutique" - Target Corporation retail store chain.
"Timmy's," "Tim's" or "Timmy Ho's" - Tim Hortons, Canadian coffee and doughnut chain
"Taco Beezy", "Taco Hell", "Toxic Hell", "Toxic Smell", "Baco Tell", "Buggering bells", "Taco Smell", "Toxic Bell", "Taco Beelzebub", "T-Bizzy", "Taco Death", "E. Coli Bell" "The Dong"- Taco Bell fast-food restaurant chain
"Toyz B We" -Toys R Us toy chain
"V-Dub"- VW or Volkswagen, car company.
"VIA Snail" - VIA Rail, Canadian passenger rail company
"Evil-Mart", "Crap-Mart" "The Evil Empire", "Hell Inc.", "Evil Inc.", "Mall-Wart", "Wal-Merde" ("merde" is the french word for shit), "Wally World", "Wal-Fart", "Small Fart", "Sprawl-Mart", Mordor or "Wall-Junk" - Wal-Mart, global chain of retail stores.
"Weggies" - Wegmans Food Market inc.
"Whole Paycheck" - Whole Foods Market
"Wuddy-Fuddy" "Big red shed"-Wharehouse (New Zealand)
"Woolies" - Woolworths Supermarkets (Australia and United Kingdom)
"Little Sleazer's" - Little Caesar's Pizza Restaurants
"Sleazers Palace" - Caesars Palace, Casino & Hotel (Las Vegas)

Nicknames for universities

"’Bama" for University of Alabama
"Barnyard" for Barnard College
"Big Green" for Dartmouth College
"Big Red" for Cornell University
"Bish" for Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
"Bobby-Gee's" for Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
"Bony Strook" fo Stony Brook University
"B-Y-Who?" for Brigham Young University
"Caley", "Cal U", for Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland
"Cal" for University of California, Berkeley
"Canoe U" for the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
"Carolina" for either of two schools:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (used commonly in North Carolina, and sometimes by national media)
University of South Carolina Columbia (used commonly in South Carolina)

"Club Mac" for Macquarie University
"Central" for Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan
"C U Dub" for Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon, Wisconsin
"D-Smack" for Des Moines Area Community College
"Dick Cockton" for Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
"Diliman Republic" for University of the Philippines, Diliman.
"Dubyanell" for Washington and Lee University
"Ewe of 'Eh" for University of Alberta
"Four C's By The Sea" for Cape Cod Community College in Cape Cod, Massachusetts
"Fridericiana" for Universität Karlsruhe in Germany,
"Funshawe" for Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, Canada
"Ham-tech or Hamtech-ilton for Hamilton College
"Hamp U for Hampton University
"Harvard by the Lake" for Isothermal Community College
"Harvard on the Hill" derogatory term used for local community colleges
"Harvard on the Hudson" for Hudson Valley Community College
"Hudson High" for the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York
"G-Dub" for The George Washington University, Washington, DC
"Georgia Tech" for Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
"Ikeys" for the University of Cape Town, South Africa
"K State" for Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
"Kinda Sorta College" for Keene State College, New Hampshire
"LA Tech" (pronounced "Lah Tech") for Louisiana Tech University
"MC Squared" for Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY
"M-Dub" for University of Mary Washington
"Marjons" for the College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth, UK
"Maties" for the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
"Melb Uni" for the University of Melbourne, Australia
"New South" for the University of New South Wales, Australia
"Mizzou" for University of Missouri–Columbia
"Nova" for Villanova University
"Okie State" or "OK State" for Oklahoma State University, most commonly its Oklahoma State University–Stillwater
"Ole Miss" for University of Mississippi
"Oxbridge" for University of Cambridge, UK and University of Oxford, UK. Mainly used to indicate the combination of these.
"Pitt" for University of Pittsburgh
"Penn" for University of Pennsylvania
"Peyups" for University of the Philippines
"QU" for Quinnipiac University
"RIJC" (pronounced reject) for Rhode Island Junior College now called Community College of Rhode Island
"San Ho" or "Statie" for San José State University
"’Sconsin" for the University of Wisconsin-Madison
"SC" or "Southern Cal" for University of Southern California
"Ship" for Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
"Slow Learners' University" for Southeastern Louisiana University
"Snodfart" for Stanford University
"Southern" for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
"Sparty" for Michigan State University
"SUNY Albany" for University of Albany, the State University of New York
"SUNY-Harlem" for Columbia University
"RU," "Old Queens," "Slutgers" for Rutgers University
"The ’Cuse" for Syracuse University
"Michelle's Farm" for Monash University
"The Bridge" for University of Cambridge, UK
"The House" for Morehouse College
"The Stanford of the East" for Harvard University
"The Joe" for Saint Joseph's University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
"The No" for California State University, Fresno (better known as Fresno State)
"The Rock" for Simon's Rock (Great Barrington, Massachusetts)
"The Shop" for University of Melbourne
"The U" for University of Miami Miami Hurricanes football, University of Utah, University of Minnesota
"The Vols" for University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, flagship of the UT system AKA "Rocky Top", "UTK" (sometimes said 'ŭt K'), and "The Volunteers"
"The Y" for Brigham Young University
"The Yard" for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
"The Zoo" for Kalamazoo College
"Trinners" for the Trinity College Dublin
"U of I" for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Tukkies" or "Tuks" for the University of Pretoria, South Africa
"UofL" for the University of Louisville
"U of M" for the University of Memphis
"Ucla" (pronounced uk-luh) for University of California, Los Angeles
"U Can't Finish" for the University of Central Florida
"UClA" (University of Colonial Avenue) for Virgina Western Community College
"U-Dub" for University of Washington, University of Western Australia, University of Wyoming
"UConn" for University of Connecticut
"UMass" for University of Massachusetts; when used without a campus identifier, usually refers to University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Unc" (pronounced uh-nck) for University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"University of Southern Palatine" for William Rainey Harper College (in Palatine, Illinois)
"University of Wealthy Ontarians" for University of Western Ontario
"USyd" for University of Sydney
"Vandy" for Vanderbilt University
"V-Tech" for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"WashU" for Washington University in St. Louis
"Wastern" for Western Michigan University
"Wazzu" for Washington State University
"Woo" for Western Oregon University
"Woopie Tech" for Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"’Zona" for University of Arizona
"ZooMass" for University of Massachusetts Amherst