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• n  a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)

• While governor he earned his soubriquet by establishing State gasoline stations, waging a successful price-war with oil companies.
• As freakish, though not so foolish, as his soubriquet, Parkyakarkus is really Harry Einstein, a onetime Boston advertising writer who, when his friends found his Greek dialect .
• For his efforts to promote the economic development of the country, Mahathir has been granted the soubriquet of Bapa Pemodenan (Father of Modernisation).

• nickname
• moniker
• cognomen
• sobriquet
• byname

Quotes

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• Andrew Rawnsley in News24
  In the centre-left Observer newspaper, columnist Andrew Rawnsley warned: "The Tories (Conservatives) will try to stick him with the nickname 'Bottler Brown'. That's a soubriquet that he is going hate ...... but there's no doubt that the bottler...