monniker n.
(orig. tramp) name, signature; thus tip someone one’s monnicker, to tell someone one’s name; thus an important person.
Great World of London I 6: He will probably add — ‘What is your monekeer (name)?’. | ||
Paved with Gold 269: His false petitions were highly esteemed, and he enjoyed the reputation of being a first-rate fist at ‘screeving a fakement,’ though, owing to his forged signatures having been too often detected, he was declared to be ‘a duffer at coopering a monekur’. | ||
Goulburn Herald (NSW) 6 Mar. 4/4: Jackson replied, ‘I will soon put the “manaker” (a slang term for a name, founded upon an inversion of ‘maker’s name’) out of that’. | ||
Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 63: monekeer, a person’s name or signature. | ||
(con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 312/2: Put a fu monekurs (names) tu it. | ||
, , | Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1859]. | |
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 143: ‘What’s your name? and what’s yours?’ said the officer, as he took out his report-book to enter our ‘monikers’. | ||
Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 14 Sept. n.p.: Moll’s ‘moneker’ was in the [illeg.] a week or two ago for shooting a U.S. cove. | ||
London Life 80: [as cit. 1856]. | ||
Macmillan’s Mag. (London) ‘Autobiog. of a Thief’ XL 502: While at the station they asked me what my monarch (name) was. | ||
Newcastle Courant 2 Sept. 6/5: The erstwhile schoolmaster whose ‘nomaker’ amongst his ‘ben culls’ was ‘clever Nat’. | ||
Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 10: Sally Hicks, who’s got a new monniker, which is Lushing Loo. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Jan. 6/2: [A] certain learned counsel remarked that parsols [sic], now-a-days, so often changed their names, that they were subsequently known by entirely different monikers altogether from those they were known by in former years. | ||
Leaves from a Prison Diary I 151: The great majority of convicts hide their real under assumed names, many of them having a fresh ‘monicker’ (name) each conviction. | ||
Hampshire Teleg. 31 Mar. 11/5: A petition fortified with ‘ream monekurs,’ or genuine signatures, will come to eighteenpence. | ||
Sporting Life 1 Apr. n.p.: Then came [...] ‘The Pocket Knifton’ (whose real moniker did not transpire) [F&H]. | ||
Signor Lippo 83: I’d lost one eye, so I go by the monacher of North Eye. | ||
Truth (Sydney) 4 Feb. 5/6: Jackson [...] said his real name was Isaac Norman and he could not understand how he appeared on the charge sheet debited with such a monniker. | ||
Mirror of Life 14 Dec. 10/4: Smith [...] managed to affix his moniker [...] to the document. | ||
High School Aegis X 15 Feb. 2–3: W’en did he stray away, an’ wot’s his monica? I mean wot’s his name? | ‘’Frisco Kid’s Story’||
Times 11 Nov. 3/ 5: The van is all right. I have had the monnick taken off [F&H]. | ||
Tramping with Tramps 341: That’s the way she got her monikey – see? | ||
World of Graft 74: I promised to forget my friend’s ‘monaker’* in public [*Nickname]. | ||
Bookman XV (Aug.) 541–44: Chi Slim, as his ‘monica’ denotes, hailed from Chicago. | ‘Rods & Gunnels’||
N.-Y. Trib. 10 May B1: Beggars have their own system of nomenclature. ‘Moneker’ is the underworld term for their names. | ||
Sun. Times (Perth) 17 Jan. 2/4: ‘What price is Stewart’s mare? ‘Hasn’t she got a monicker?’. | ||
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 13 Apr. 6/5: Fancy a prize-fighter with a monniker like Herbert Willoughby St. Aubyn Andrew! | ||
Spoilers 91: Charles Marketer is your monnicker, really. | ||
Road 126: ‘Monicas’ are the nom-de-rails that hoboes assume or accept when thrust upon them by their fellows. [...] A favorite device of hoboes is to base their monicas on the localities from which they hail, as: New York Tommy, Pacific Slim, Buffalo Smithy, Canton Tim, Pittsburg Jack. | ||
Maison De Shine 219: Susy’s your monaker? | ||
News & Courier (Charleston, SC) 14 Apr. 18/1: The Greek shinesman felt of the curved knife [...] and looked like he was going to write his monaker on my middle with it. | ||
Sun. Times (Perth) 6 Feb. 2nd sect. 4/7: His surname, he said, was Chouli, and christian monicker, Patrick. | ||
Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 21 Aug. [synd. cartoon strip] What’s the Judge’s monnicker, Harry? | ||
Knocking the Neighbors 4: The other claimed the following brief Monicker, to wit: Henry. | ||
Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 140: What is your regular monker? | ‘Loosening Up of Hogan’||
Truth (Wellington) 6 Apr. 6/2: he failed to account for [...] £1.15s belonging to a type-snatcher with the kingly moniker of Edward Albert Purse. | ||
Cockney At Home 134: Emma was her monick. | ||
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 59: monacre, monacker [...] A nickname; a professional cognomen. | ||
Wash. Post 11 Nov. Miscellany 3/5: The ‘fastest’ gun [...] was said to have been ‘Mollie Matches,’ and this ‘monacher’, or name, had been acquired by selling matches and at the same time [...] picking pockets. | ||
Psmith Journalist (1993) 306: Long Otto’s his monaker. | ||
Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 154: They ain’ nothin’ to keep me aroun’ home. I blows for Canada — that’s where my monicker come from. | ‘Canada Kid’||
Digger Dialects 34: moniker (n.) — (1) Name; (2) signature. | ||
Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 10 June 8/2: He was one of the no-names [...] Called him Gentleman Jack [...] and it served as well as any copper-bound monniker. | ||
Hand-made Fables 112: He became Joseph to the Cruel Knowledge that his swell Moniker [...] was not bringing in any Jack. | ||
Gay-cat 28: Beside the monakers, or road-names, of a hundred hoboes were scratched [...] messages in the hobo code. | ||
Fighting Blood 40: I was afraid you might have a monniker which would baffle the annnouncers. | ||
Black Mask Aug. III 18: Nellie didn’t have the moniker, The Red Peril, wished on her because she was a disease. | ||
(con. WW1) Patrol 221: ‘I’m English in spite o’ my Wop monaker’. | ||
(con. 1835–40) Bold Bendigo 74: Well, now, that’s demned cool [...] and we’ve got his monicher flashed all over the show. | ||
Story Omnibus (1966) 277: I can’t give you no monickers. You know I would if I knowed ’em. | ‘The Big Knockover’||
Chicago May (1929) 101: I was Chicago May. This was the way the London dicks first knew me by my monoger. | ||
(con. 1890) Hobo’s Hornbook 26: And now if I remember them, / Here’s their monikas for you. | ‘A Convention Song’||
(con. 1910–20s) Hell’s Kitchen 119: Monack ... the name of a person. | ||
Runyon on Broadway (1954) 147: His monicker, the Gonoph, [...] is Yiddish for thief. | ‘Hold ’Em, Yale!’||
Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 130: Monica, Monicker, Moniker Or Monniker. – A name, especially of an individual, hence a nickname ; occasionally a signature or a pre-arranged sign marked on a wall or building as a guide. | ||
Coll. Stories (1990) 296: The same Pony Boy who had given him that moniker, Spats, years ago. | ‘His Last Day’||
‘Zarko Assassin’ in Bulletin 23 Oct. 48/3: ‘[I]f he’s high up in the grapplin’ game ain’t it a bit risky for our gorilla to use his moniker?’. | ||
Gilt Kid 50: Eileen, or something, that was the sister’s monick. | ||
Bath Chron. 24 Dec. 11/1: Cherry Blossom’s real ‘monniker’ no one knew, he received his name from the care he bestowed upon his boots. | ||
Big Con xi: Most of the names and ‘monickers’ of confidence men appearing in this book are genuine. | ||
Letters from the Big House 144: ’E says as ’is china bust a two-handful kite, Scotch jug, flutes the bogeys cause the jumper ses the moniker’s bent. Slung ’em the madam, an’ copped. | ||
We Were the Rats 5: I gotta introduce ya to me mother. I don’t know ya other monnicker, see? | ||
Third Party Risk (1961) 90: ‘Legs!’ What a monicker, eh? | ||
Junkie (1966) 44: ‘The Fag’ [...] would [...] feel the man’s thigh as though his attentions were sexual. From this trick he got this moniker. | ||
Rage in Harlem (1969) 53: Just give us the monickers they’re using. | ||
Hell’s Angels (1967) 34: The group has more than lived up to its sinister moniker. | ||
Holy Smoke 64: Meaning, whose phizog and monniker was on the head side? | ||
Cutter and Bone (2001) 68: He picked up a strong new odor that reminded him of Cuttter’s monicker or the kid, old Brown Pants. | ||
1985 (1980) 175: All you have to do is shove your moniker down. | ||
Glitter Dome (1982) 139: The skater’s name was Griswold Weils. He had no moniker of Mr Wheels. | ||
Up the Cross 171: Brucie the Rooster nominated the Walter Pigeon monicker. | (con. 1959)||
Bodhrán Makers 13: ‘Willie Smiley.’ He repeated the name contemptuously. ‘What a monicker for that big, blubbery, misbegotten bastard!’. | ||
Sweet La-La Land (1999) 134: His name was Houlihan but they called him Hooligan. He didn’t mind. He thought all monikers were compliments. | ||
Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 199: They even got as far as sticking a monicker on the nag. | ||
Indep. Rev. 26 June 20: Sir Geoffrey Shakerley (an inauspicious monicker for a snapper). | ||
(con. 1960s-70s) Top Fellas 53/2: The Droog moniker comes from the Anthony Burgess novel, A‘ Clockwork Orange’. | ||
Mad mag. May 45: Somehow convincing the world that your nickname should be ‘The Donald’ instead of more appropriate monikers like ‘The Dickwad’ [or] ‘The Deadbeat’. | ||
Life 210: Schneiderman, who also went by the moniker of Acid king. | ||
Pulling a Train’ [ebook] My twisted reason for putting such a bad-taste politically-putrescent moniker on a modern paperback. | Introduction in||
(con. 1943) Coorparoo Blues [ebook] ‘Where’d ya get that silly fucken moniker?’. | ||
Decent Ride 21: He is one of the few folk who still refers to him by that old school moniker. | ||
California Bear 33: The press may have given him the vaguely insulting moniker of the California Bear. |