different between nickname vs todger

English

Etymology

From Middle English nekename, alteration (due to a rebracketing of an ekename as a nekename) of earlier ekename (“nickname”), from eke (“also, additional”) + name (“name”). Compare Old Norse aukanafn, auknafn, auknefni (“nickname”), Danish øgenavn (“nickname”), and German Low German Ökelname (“nickname”).

For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, orange, umpire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?kne?m/

Noun

nickname (plural nicknames)

1. A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.

2. A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing.

Usage notes

Nicknames are often given in quotation marks between the first and last names. For example: Sammy "The Bull" Gravano.

Synonyms

• (familiar invented given name): handle, hypocoristic, moniker, nick, sobriquet, pet name

Descendants

• ? German: Nickname
• ? Japanese: ?????? (nikkun?mu)

Translations

Verb

nickname (third-person singular simple present nicknames, present participle nicknaming, simple past and past participle nicknamed)

1. (transitive) To give a nickname to (a person or thing).

Translations

English

Etymology

A variant of tadger, perhaps related to dialectal todge (“anything of a thick consistency”), todgey (“short and fat”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?d??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?d??/
• Rhymes: -?d??(?)

Noun

todger (plural todgers)

1. (Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, colloquial) A penis.

   Few people are very patient when they?ve had less down time than Warren Beatty?s todger.

   • 2005, Alexis James, Into the Woods: Erotic Fairytales and Other Stories, Lulu, US, page 150,

     A virgin you are and a virgin you will remain until your 18th birthday, whereupon you shall crave your first cock, taste your first todger, knuzzle your first knob and this shall be your undoing.

   • 2008, Ashley Hames, Sin Cities: Adventures of a Sex Reporter, Tonto Books, UK, page 66,

     I?ve even been in bed with a girl who, on clapping her eyes on my todger, looked up at me. ‘Your willy?s not very big is it?’ she said.

   • 2011, Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over, AuthorHouse, UK, page 8,

     As stated previously, boys think with their todgers and I had become a decent looking young girl, so I naturally understood my vagina had magnetic charms to a penis.

Synonyms

• tadger
• See also Thesaurus:penis

Derived terms

• titty-todger