#nickname

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

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Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#characteristic #deed #either #given #indian

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#nicknames #people #ridiculous #stick

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#cracker #dizzy #home #home run #like

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#believe #devil #haunts #heaviest #imagination

My nickname was Skinabo - 'skin and bones.' ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#nickname #skin

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname. ↗

— Jack K. Cooke

#i #indian #many #nickname #objection

I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname. ↗

— Dick Lane

#decided #good #i #keep #mentioned

John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name. ↗

— John Legend

#friends #grew #into #john #kind

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing. ↗

— John Legend

#calling #cos #i #john #legend