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pseudonym| Name assumed in order to conceal identity or because it sounds better or more suitable for professional purposes than the person's own name. |
pseudonym| In computing, name adopted by someone on the Internet, especially to participate in Internet forums and chat rooms. Pseudonyms are often jokey or witty, and are sometimes used to conceal the user's gender or identity. |
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Birmingham, George A
Brierley, Benjamin
Cocaio, Merlin
Collins, Tom
Cornwall, Barry
Daviot, Gordon
Falco, Gian
Falkland, Samuel
Graham, Ennis
Higgins, Jack
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Macleod, Fiona
Multatuli
nom de plume
North, Christopher
Phillimore, Francis
Rutherford, Mark
Slick, Sam
Tey, Josephine
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| The hero's rogue servant, Chispa, seemed to me, then and long afterwards, so fine a bit of Spanish character that I chose his name for my first pseudonym when I began to write for the newspapers, and signed my legislative correspondence for a Cincinnati paper with it. But the nervousness that assailed him at the door of that inglorious haunt - a pawnshop - and the effort necessary to invent the pseudonym (which, somehow, seemed to him a necessary part of the procedure), had taken more time than he imagined: and when he returned to the billiard-room with the spoils, the bank had already closed its doors. "Your pseudonym," he remarked thoughtfully, "seems very familiar to me. |