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sobriquet

[soh-bruh-key, -ket, soh-bruh-key, -ket, saw-bree-ke] / ˈsoʊ brəˌkeɪ, -ˌkɛt, ˌsoʊ brəˈkeɪ, -ˈkɛt, sɔ briˈkɛ /


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In thinking about grinders, I did a Google image search and somehow ended up at Sobriquet magazine.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2013

Sobriquet of a professor at the college of Plassans, so called by the pupils as he marked by the constant rubbing of his head the back of every chair he occupied.

From A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by Patterson, J. G




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