Search for: Joseph
10161 Etymology dictionary, p. joe (n.).2
… merchant Joseph Martinson (c. 1880-1949) is not chronologically impossible, but it wants evidence and seems to have originated in the company's advertisements …
10162 Etymology dictionary, p. joey (n.).2
… name Joseph, for which Partridge lists many common or coarse meanings in 20c. Australian slang. Farmer and Henley ("Slang and Its Analogues") quote an 1887 article …
10163 Etymology dictionary, p. Joe Miller (n.).2
… , from Joseph Miller (1684-1738), a comedian, whose name was affixed after his death to a popular jest-book, "Joe Miller's Jests, or the Wit's Vade-mecum" (1739) compiled …
10164 Etymology dictionary, p. Jose.2
masc. proper name, from Spanish José, Spanish form of Joseph .
10165 Etymology dictionary, p. Joseph.1
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10166 Etymology dictionary, p. Joseph.2
… Latin Joseph, Josephus, from Greek Ioseph, from Hebrew Yoseph (also Yehoseph; see Psalm lxxxi.6) "adds, increases," causative of yasaph "he added." Its use in names …
10167 Etymology dictionary, p. Josephine.2
fem. proper name, from French Jósephine, fem. of Joseph. Another fem. form in English is Josepha .
10168 Etymology dictionary, p. kangaroo (n.).2
… botanist Joseph Banks (who first reported the species to Europeans), supposedly representing a native word from northeast Queensland, Australia, but often …
10169 Etymology dictionary, p. Lancaster.2
… educator Joseph Lancaster (1778-1838).
10170 Etymology dictionary, p. Listerine (n.).2
… Dr. Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Wheat Lambert as a multi-purpose disinfectant and anti-septic for surgery. In 1895, after it was discovered to kill germs commonly …
10171 Etymology dictionary, p. Marsellaise (n.).2
… . Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836); the current name is because it was sung enthusiastically by soldiers from Marseilles advancing on the Tuileries …
10172 Etymology dictionary, p. massage (n.).2
… Guillaume Joseph Le Gentil) is that French got it in colonial India from Portuguese amassar "knead," a verb from Latin massa "mass, dough" (see mass (n.1)). Massage parlor …
10173 Etymology dictionary, p. McCarthyism.2
… . Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-1957) of Wisconsin, leader of U.S. anti-Communist agitation. He entered the Senate in 1947, but his rise to national attention began …
10174 Etymology dictionary, p. Mormon (n.).2
… founder, Joseph Smith (1805-1844), in Seneca County, N.Y., from Mormon, supposed prophet and author of "The Book of Mormon," explained by Smith as meaning more mon …
10175 Etymology dictionary, p. mutualism (n.).2
… Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) that individual and collective well-being is attainable only by mutual dependence, from French mutuellisme. In biology …
10176 Etymology dictionary, p. nihilism (n.).2
… journalist Joseph von Görres (1776-1848). Turgenev used the Russian form of the word ( nigilizm ) in "Fathers and Children" (1862) and claimed to have invented it …
10177 Etymology dictionary, p. Nordic (adj.).2
… anthropologist Joseph Deniker's system of race classifications), literally "of or pertaining to the north," from nord "north" (a loan-word from Old English; see …
10178 Etymology dictionary, p. peavey (n.).2
… a Joseph Peavey of Stillwater, Maine, and give a date of 1858.
10179 Etymology dictionary, p. Pilates.2
c. 1980, physical fitness regimen developed c. 1920 by German-born physical fitness teacher Joseph Pilates (1883-1967).
10180 Etymology dictionary, p. Portland.2
… mason Joseph Aspdin, from resemblance of the color to the popular building stone of Portland, England. Related: Portlandian .