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KITE
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English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : from Middle English kete, kyte ‘kite’ (the bird of prey; Old English c̄ta), a nickname for a fierce or rapacious person.
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English
English : habitational name from either of two places, in Hertfordshire and Surrey, called Puttenham, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Putta, meaning ‘kite’ (the bird) + Old English hÄm ‘homestead’.John Putnam emigrated from England to Salem, MA, before 1641, and established a family that was still prominent in Massachusetts four generations later, including the revolutionary war soldier Israel Putnam (1718–90) and his cousin Rufus Putnam (1738–1824), also a soldier, one of the first settlers in OH.
Boy/Male
Finnish, German
Mighty Warrior
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English
English : habitational name from Putney in Surrey (now Greater London), named in Old English with the genitive of Putta, a personal name, or putta ‘kite’ + hÄm ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow’, ‘land hemmed in by water or marsh’.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Muslim
Long Kite
Female
Thai/Siamese
Thai name derived from the name of a type of fighter-kite, PAKPAO means "female fighter-kite." Kite-fighting is a sport that has been played by Thai kings throughout history, and the battle between the male Chula kite and female Pakpao kite is the highlight of the game.Â
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English
English : variant spelling of Kite.
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English
English : habitational name from Gledhill, a place in West Yorkshire, named from Old English gleoda ‘kite’ + hyll ‘hill’.
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German
German : topographic name for someone living near a water channel or water source, from the Bavarian dialect word Kett ‘water channel’, ‘spring’.English : Norfolk variant of Kite.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Pashtun
Butterfly; Kite
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English
English : variant spelling of Kite.
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English
English : from an Old English personal name C̄ting, a derivative of C̄ta (see Kite).Irish (of Norman origin) : Americanized form of Céitinn, a Gaelicized form of de Ketyng (probably a habitational name), which was taken to southern Ireland by Anglo-Norman settlers.
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English
English : variant spelling of Kite.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Butterfly, Kite
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English
English : habitational name from Glydwish in Burwash, Sussex, which is named from Old English glida ‘kite’ + Old English wisc ‘marshy meadow’.Altered spelling of German Gladisch, from the personal name Gladu, Slavic form of Claudius, or a nickname for a proper looking person, from Slavic gladki ‘smooth’.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : apparently a habitational name possibly from Glidden in Hampshire, which is named from Old English gleoda ‘kite’ + dūn ‘hill’. Compare Gledhill. However, the concentration of the surname in Devon suggests that it may also have arisen from another place, now lost.
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English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : patronymic from Keat, a variant of Kite.
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n.
The European kite.
n.
A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.
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A bird related to the kite.
a.
Like or relating to a kite.
n.
The Brazilian kite (Polyborus Brasiliensis); -- so called in imitation of its notes.
v. i.
To raise money by "kites;" as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6.
a.
Pertaining to polite kiterature.
n.
A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry.
n.
The belly.
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A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.
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The brill.
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Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill.
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A genus of raptorial birds, including the European kite.
n.
Fig. : One who is rapacious.
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A kite of infernal breed.
a.
Of or resembling birds of the kite kind.
n.
A mode of raising money, or sustaining one's credit, by the use of paper which is merely nominal; -- called also kiting.
n.
Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.
v. i.
To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.
n.
See Kite, n., 6.