full well, ananym

Quote:

"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world." — Charlotte Brontë

full well
Very well, exceedingly well, as in You know full well how much this costs. [c. 1700]

ananym (AN-uh-nim)

noun
A name formed by reversing letters of another name, often used as a pseudonym.

Etymology
From Greek ana- (back) + -onym (name)

Examples:

• Talk show host Oprah's production company is named Harpo.
• Doctor Seuss (Theodore Geisel) wrote many books under the name Theo LeSieg.
• Samuel Butler wrote a satirical novel Erewhon (near reverse of Nowhere).

Usage
"Rongis was an ananym - so named by an employee of the stagecoach company whose own name was Ali Signor." — John McPhee; Rising from the Plains; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1986.