She mentally dubbed the pair Lefty and Spot.

Aili remembered the perception of a womblike environment that both she and Riker had experienced after the asteroid strike, and realized that they must have been placed in these "lifepods" (as she mentally dubbed them) for treatment of their injuries.

Barrayaran dress will be required for the wedding itself of course. . . ." She was off, on a lengthy dissertation of what Miles mentally dubbed the social-technical aspects of her job; the topic was soothing and happy, and both he and Illyan kept her going with leading questions for a while.

"Well, I tell you what it is," said the man whom Tom mentally dubbed Mr. High.

A little farther on she came to a small white cottage, in the porch of which stood a nutcrackery old woman whom Breeze mentally dubbed the Witch of Endor.

Ardmore mentally dubbed Robert Wilkie a "punk kid."