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Eigennamehäufig in Dialogen

Nickname for a swot or studious person, or one who uses needlessly complicated words.

Eigenname

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    Nickname for a swot or studious person, or one who uses needlessly complicated words.

    His friends called him "Dictionary." There were other names they called him that were far worse.

    He won a scholarship to a prestigious British inspired secondary school, Government College in Umuahia, and also gained a reputation for knowledge in his home village, where they called him Dictionary.

    Hillis Brown turned toward Simon and whispered, "Hey, DICtionary^([sic]), don't worry, just because you sing like Johnny doesn't mean you gotta be a faggot."

    Meanwhile, he applied himself so diligently to his formal education that schoolmates called him “Dictionary.” This effort won him admission to a British-run boarding school with an excellent library.

Herkunft

From dictionary.

Die NachbarseitenDie alphabetische Reihenfolge folgt den Regeln der Sprache, nicht den Bytewerten: Ein Akzent entscheidet nur zwischen zwei sonst gleichen Wörtern, und das Spanische führt Ñ als eigenen Buchstaben.

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