Call and Nickname

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Call verb - To give a name to.

Usage example: we've decided to call the kitten “Molly”

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Nickname is a synonym for call. In some cases you can use "Nickname" instead a verb "Call".

Nearby Words: calling, called, caller, callback, callable

Nickname verb - Give a nickname to.

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Call is a synonym for nickname. Sometimes you can use "Call" instead a verb "Nickname".

Nearby Words: nicknamed, nicknaming

old	old call	old nickname
good	good call	good nickname
high	high call	high nickname
original	original call	original nickname
Other adjectives: friendly, actual, real, little, personal, new, early, funny, last, different, previous.

Similarly, Salamanders call them dusk wraiths, after their ancient Nocturnean nickname from the times no one knew what Eldar were.

Source: Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
And possibly because the Homo sapiens like to call the Neo sapiens "Neos" or "Sapes", the only similar nickname for the Neo sapiens to call them back to differentiate would be "Homos".

Source: Humans by Any Other Name
Others call them "pandas", and for a more racy nickname, there's always the lovable "chink tank".

Source: Fan Nickname / World of Tanks

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