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FLY
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English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : Normanized form of Flyford, a habitational name from Flyford, Worcestershire, named from Old English (ge)fyrðe ‘woodland’, with an obscure first element.
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English
English : unexplained.South German : topographic name for someone who lived at the upper end of a village on a hill, from Middle High German ober, obar ‘above’. In other cases, it may have denoted someone who lived on an upper floor of a building with two or more floors.North German : topographic for someone who lived on the bank of a river or stream name, standardized from Middle Low German over ‘river bank’.Possibly a shortened form of any of various German compound names formed with Ober- (see entries below).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Ober ‘senior’, ‘chief’. In some cases it can denote a rabbi; in others it is ornamental.A 17th-century American bearer of this name, Richard Ober (1641–1715/16), emigrated from Abbotsbury, Dorset, England, to the Salem colony and settled in Mackerel Cove, MA, later Beverly. His descendant Frederick Albion Ober, who was born in Beverly, MA, in 1849, was an ornithologist who discovered 22 new species of birds in the Lesser Antilles, the flycatcher Myiarchus oberi, and oriole Icterus oberi.
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English
A stream.
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Native American
Flying falcon.
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English
English : unexplained.Danish : unexplained.Perhaps an altered spelling of Dutch Vlij, a topographic name from vallei ‘lowland’, ‘marsh’; in New Netherland this became a common term for a swamp.
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Variant spelling of Scottish Lindsay.Irish
Variant spelling of Scottish Lindsay.Irish : reduced and Anglicized form of various Gaelic surnames, as for example Ó Loingsigh (see Lynch 1), Mac Giolla Fhionntóg (see McClintock), and Ó Fhloinn (see Flynn).English : habitational name from Lindsey in Suffolk, named in Old English as ‘island (Old English ēg) of Lelli’, a personal name representing a byform of an unattested name Lealla.
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English
English : variant spelling of Flint.
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British, English
Where Hawks Fly
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Italian
Italian : nickname from volante ‘(he) who flies’ (compare 3, below).Spanish : unexplained.English : nickname from the present participle of Old French voler ‘to fly’, in the sense of ‘nimble’, ‘agile’.
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American, British, English, German
A Stream; A Flint-stone
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Biblical
God of the fly.
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhloinn and Ó Fhloinn (see Flynn).Scottish : variant of Lyne 3.English : habitational name from any of several places so called in Norfolk, in particular King’s Lynn, an important center of the medieval wool trade. The place name is probably from an Old Welsh word cognate with Gaelic linn ‘pool’, ‘stream’.
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English or Irish
English or Irish : perhaps a hypercorrected spelling of Flynn.
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English
Irish surname transferred to forename use, from an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Floinn, FLYNN means "descendant of Flann," hence "red, ruddy."
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Tamil
Uddiyan | உதà¯à®¤à¯€à®¯à®¨
Flying speed
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Irish
Son of a red-haired man. Surname.
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Italian
Flying.
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Muslim
Free flying Shah sawar
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English
English : variant spelling of Fly.
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American, British, Chinese, Christian, English
Where Hawks Fly; Settlement on the Bank
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Native American
Sage.
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Irish
Irish : translation of Gaelic Ó Mocháin (see Mohan; Gaelic moch means ‘early’ or ‘timely’), or of some other similar surname, for example Ó Mochóir, a shortened form of Ó Mochéirghe, Ó Maoil-Mhochéirghe, from a personal name meaning ‘early rising’.English : habitational name from any of various places, such as Earley in Berkshire and Arley in Cheshire, Lancashire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire, which derive their names from Old English earn ‘eagle’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.English : nickname from Old English eorllīc ‘manly’, ‘noble’, a derivative of eorl (see Earl).Americanized spelling of German Ehrle.
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Basque
, crown.
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Australian, French, Latin, Spanish
Small; Little
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Tamil
Vedarth | வேதாரà¯à®¤
Essence of the Vedas
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Hindu
Gift from God
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English
English : habitational name from a place called Iden Green in Benenden, Kent, or Iden Manor in Staplehurst, Kent, or from Iden in East Sussex. All these places are named in Old English as ‘pasture by the yew trees’, from īg ‘yew’ + denn ‘pasture’.North German : metronymic or patronymic from the personal name Ida.
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Indian
Dearest
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Muslim
Fourth prayer of the day, One who has wisdom
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Japanese
(二郎) Japanese name JIROU means "second son."
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FLY
v. i.
A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.
n.
One of the eggs or young larvae deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.
n.
A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies.
v. t.
To soil with flyspecks.
n.
A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.
v. i.
A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
a.
Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
v. i.
A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
n.
The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.
n.
A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
v. i.
Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.
n.
A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.
v. i.
Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.
pl.
of Flyman
v. t.
To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.
n.
The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
n.
The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.