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CHAFFIN
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English
English : from Middle English spink ‘chaffinch’ (probably of imitative origin), hence a nickname bestowed on account of some fancied resemblance to the bird.
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English
English : variant of Chaffin.
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English
English : variant spelling of Chaffin.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : descriptive nickname for a bald man, from Middle English chaffin, a diminutive of Old French chauf ‘bald’ (Latin calvus).All present-day English bearers of the name Chaffin are descended from John Chaffin (died 1658), a blacksmith of Bruton, Somerset. The surname is now much more common in America than in England.
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English
English : occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden vessels such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats, from Middle English couper, cowper (apparently from Middle Dutch kūper, a derivative of kūp ‘tub’, ‘container’, which was borrowed independently into English as coop). The prevalence of the surname, its cognates, and equivalents bears witness to the fact that this was one of the chief specialist trades in the Middle Ages throughout Europe. In America, the English name has absorbed some cases of like-sounding cognates and words with similar meaning in other European languages, for example Dutch Kuiper.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Americanized form of Kupfer and Kupper (see Kuper).Dutch : occupational name for a buyer or merchant, Middle Dutch coper.
Boy/Male
Hindu
The sacred syllable Om, Originator of the syllable of Om, The mystic syllable Om
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Telugu, Traditional
Great Meditator
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Wise
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French, German, Latin, Swedish
Blessed; Happy
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythological, Sindhi, Telugu, Traditional
Lord Krishna
Biblical
wand of government
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English
English : habitational name from Cleaves in Devon (see Cleve).
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Tamil
Siddhant | ஸிதà¯à®¤à®¾à®‚தÂ
Rule, Principals
Boy/Male
Muslim
Distinguisher. Differentiator.
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n.
The chaffinch; -- called also roberd.
n.
The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note.
n.
A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
n.
The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain.
n.
A chaffinch.
n.
The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.
a.
A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.
n.
The chaffinch.
n.
The chaffinch.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Chaff
n.
The chaffinch.
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A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
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The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.
n.
The chaffinch.