moniker

Anglais

Étymologie

Attesté en 1849, d’origine incertaine. Il y a beaucoup de spéculation concernant l’origine du terme ; de monk ou de munik, qui signifie nom en shelta, provenant du gaélique irlandais ainm.

Nom commun

Singulier	Pluriel
moniker \ˈmɒn.ɪ.kə\	monikers \ˈmɒn.ɪ.kəz\

moniker

(Familier) Sobriquet, surnom.
- The rookie policewoman was upset being called Lemon Drop until she realized that everyone on the police force has a moniker.
- An unidentified citizen filed the complaint along with the president’s office, saying that the moniker was slanderous. – Salon.com, 2008, Court: OK to call Polish leaders ‘ducks’.
Appellation.
- Most vendors have dropped the moniker BPM, which was associated with expensive, complex projects that took many months. – Koplowitz et. al, 2019, The Forrester Wave™: Software For Digital Process Automation For Deep Deployments, Q2 2019.