(1) she was a vast and haughty person who answered to the sobriquet u2018Duchesseu2019(2) Frank, as his sobriquet implies, is a giant of a man.(3) He laughs when asked about his new sobriquet of Britain's richest man.(4) Early on Sunday morning last, a person who lives at Brampton, near Appleby and who we only know by the sobriquet of u2018Cock Robinu2019, narrowly escaped being drowned.(5) His on-field partnership with fellow Galway great Frank Stockwell saw the pair earn the sobriquet of the u2018Terrible Twinsu2019 - a name borne of their almost telepathic understanding.(6) John Mullan discusses Charles Edward Stuart's sobriquets , but we should remember that most of his followers in 1745 were Gaelic-speakers.