Meanings of soubriquet in English

Indeed, he is generally known and called by the soubriquet, "Sunday News."

Pallett is now operating under his name, rather than his previous soubriquet of Final Fantasy

Some years ago he gained the soubriquet of the "Fire King!"

The soubriquet bears its own explanation with it.

You seldom find a man with a soubriquet

Not a soubriquet he chose for himself.

And how well her soubriquet becomes her!

Her name was Susan, but he had always called her Posy, having himself invented for her that soubriquet.

This incident was the means of enlarging the soubriquet "Honest Abe" to "Honest Old Abe, the Rail-splitter."

The soubriquet "Professor" was itself subtly derogatory.

The latter had obtained the soubriquet of "the Great Rebel," from his earnest efforts to free his country.

Arguably that's because his confidence can come over as arrogance: "Smart Alex" was not a soubriquet born of love.

Aboard the frigate he had been known as "Old Bill"; and the soubriquet still attached to him upon the spar.

Paraphrasing Margot Asquith's famous remark when speaking to Jean Harlow, one local wit suggested that in Lambe-Murphy's soubriquet, the G was silent.

And yet there was something about her which seemed to justify the soubriquet of duchess, which the girls had given to her.

When reference is made to The Duke in Hollywood circles, there is immediate recognition of the soubriquet for the late John Wayne.