What is the name meaning of MOTLEY. Phrases containing MOTLEY
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MOTLEY
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English
English : probably a nickname for someone who wore parti-colored clothes, from Middle English motteley ‘motley’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Motley.
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Romanian
Romanian name CRINA means "lily."
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Successor of Hasan
Girl/Female
Indian
Wife of Lord shiva., Close to God, Name of Goddess Durga, Goddess Parvati
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : occupational name for a tailor or nickname for a good swordsman, from taillant ‘cutting’, present participle of Old French tailler ‘to cut’ (Late Latin taliare, from talea ‘(plant) cutting’).English : variant spelling of Tallent.Irish : of English origin, recorded in Ireland from the 16th century; also a variant form of Tallon.
Boy/Male
Buddhist, Indian, Sanskrit
Creator of the Gods
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English
English : habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Hertfordshire, Kent, and Somerset, so named from Old English strǣt ‘paved highway’, ‘Roman road’ (Latin strata (via)). In the Middle Ages the word at first denoted a Roman road but later also came to denote the main street in a town or village, and so the surname may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived on a main street.Jewish : Americanized form of the Sephardic surname Chetrit, of uncertain origin.Americanized form of Ashkenazic Jewish Strasser and a number of other similar surnames.The Rev. Nicholas Street (1603–74) came from England to Taunton, MA, between 1630 and 1638, and later moved to New Haven, CT, where his descendant Augustus Russell Street, a leader in art education, was born in 1791 and went on to become one of the most important early benefactors of Yale College.
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English
English : possibly from Middle English smethe ‘smooth’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a piece of smooth, level ground, or a nickname from the same word used in a transferred sense for someone of an amiable disposition. Alternatively, it could be a topographic or metonymic occupational name from Old English smiððe, smeðe ‘smithy’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Smeeth in Kent.
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Island
Female
Slovene
Slovene form of Roman Latin Daria, DARJA means "possesses a lot, wealthy."
Female
Egyptian
, the great, or, the first.
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n.
Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style.
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Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors.
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Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.
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One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
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A combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool.
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Having a mind of a jester; foolish.
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Hence, a jester, a fool.
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Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1.