Entry: sobriquet (n.)
In context: "Something so much an extension of you deserves a sobriquet."
Definition: An epithet, a nickname.
Other: One of Lenz's sobriquet's, self-described and physiologically specific, is The Frightful Hog.
SNOOT score: 2
Page:173
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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