Bloody kids fetishishing french bourgeois decadence and attacking good proletarian words
“person’s name, especially a nickname or alias,” 1849, said to be originally a hobo term (but monekeer is attested in London underclass from 1851), of uncertain origin; perhaps from monk (monks and nuns take new names with their vows, and early 19c. British tramps referred to themselves as “in the monkery”).
It’s called “nom de guerre” dad, and it’s a far superior concept to a “moniker”!
Bloody kids fetishishing french bourgeois decadence and attacking good proletarian words