Meanings
- no pluralThe use of a caconym.
"Old sow" in (15) is not derogative, it is a caconymy and indicates close relationship to which Jimmie reacts by saying not only how his mother is but also mentions other members of his family (16).
2013, J Vlčková, “Social identity and its reflection in communication: Jimmie Blacksmith in Thomas Keneally's novel The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith”, in Brno studies in English1 more example
...the relative advantages of any pair of characters may be discussed irrespective of my personal belief that names such as are described in the first column are, as a rule, euonyms, while caconymy summarizes the attributes enumerated in the second.
1885, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, page 285
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