What is the name meaning of MERRY. Phrases containing MERRY
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MERRY
Female
Cornish
, Wenna by the sea.
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English
English : nickname for someone with a blithe or happy disposition, from Middle English merry ‘lively’, ‘cheerful’ (Old English myr(i)ge ‘pleasant’, ‘agreeable’).Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mearadhaigh, Ó Meardha ‘descendant of Mearadhach’, ‘descendant of Meardha’, personal names derived from an adjective meaning ‘lively’, ‘wild’, ‘wanton’.French : from a vernacular form of the personal name Médéric, derived from a Germanic personal name conposed of mecht ‘strength’, ‘might’ + rīc ‘power’; ‘ruler’.French : habitational name from Merry in Yonne or Merri in Orne, derived from the Latin personal name Matrius + the suffix -acum.
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English, Scottish, and French
English, Scottish, and French : nickname for someone of a cheerful or attractive disposition, from Middle English, Old French joli(f) ‘merry’, ‘happy’.
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English
English : nickname for a merry or sporty person, from Middle English gode ‘good’ + game, gamen ‘sport’, ‘pastime’.
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English
English : nickname for someone of a sunny disposition, from Middle English merry (see Merry) + wether ‘weather’ (Old English weder).
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English
English : nickname, an elaborated form of Merry 1.Irish : Anglicized form of an unidentified Gaelic name.
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English
English : variant spelling of Merriman.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Lively, Gleeful, Merry
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname for a person with a sunny temperament. Compare Merryweather. There is a legend that a Scottish family of Highland origin assumed this name in punning allusion to Job 37:22, ‘Fair weather cometh out of the north’. At the present time the surname is most frequent in East Anglia.
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English
English : nickname for a merry person or an early riser, from Middle English lavero(c)k, lark (Old English lÄwerce). It was perhaps also a metonymic occupational name for someone who netted the birds and sold them for the cooking pot.English : from a medieval personal name, a byform of Lawrence, derived by back-formation from Larkin.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Lively, Gleeful, Merry
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English
English : from Middle English game, gamen ‘amusement’, ‘pastime’ (Old English gamen), hence a nickname for a merry or sporty person.German (Gä(h)me) : from a Germanic personal name formed with Old High German gaman ‘fun’, ‘game’.
Girl/Female
English American Welsh
Merry; mirthful; joyous. Also an abbreviation of Meredith.
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English
English : from a short form of the various Old English personal names with a first element glæd ‘shining’, ‘joyful’. Compare Gladwin.English and Scandinavian : nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle English, Scandinavian glad ‘merry’, ‘jolly’.
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English
English : topographic name for someone living near a wall (in particular, the wall of a city), or an occupational name for a mason who built walls (see Wall).English : topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent wall, for example a Roman wall or the wall of a walled city (see Wall 2).English : occupational name for someone who boiled sea water to extract the salt, from an agent derivative of Middle English well(en) ‘to boil’.English : nickname for a good-humored person, Anglo-Norman French wall(i)er (an agent derivative of Old French galer ‘to make merry’, of Germanic origin).South German : nickname from Middle High German wallære ‘pilgrim’.Col. John Waller came from England to VA in about 1635. The name was brought to North America by several other bearers independently.
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English
English : variant spelling of Merriweather.
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English
English : variant spelling of Merrifield.
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English
English : nickname for a cheerful or boisterous person, from Middle English ga(i)le ‘jovial’, ‘rowdy’, from Old English gÄl ‘light’, ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’, which was reinforced in Middle English by Old French gail. Compare Gail 2.English : from a Germanic personal name introduced into England from France by the Normans in the form Gal(on). Two originally distinct names have fallen together in this form: one was a short form of compound names with the first element gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’. Compare Gaillard, the other was a byname from the element walh ‘stranger’, ‘foreigner’.English : metonymic occupational name for a jailer, topographic name for someone who lived near the local jail, or nickname for a jailbird, from Old Northern French gaiole ‘jail’ (Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of classical Latin cavea ‘cage’).Portuguese : from galé ‘galleon’, ‘war ship’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a shipwright or a mariner.Slovenian : from a pet form of the personal name Gal (Latin Gallus), formed with the suffix -e, usually denoting a young person.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, such as Merryfield in Devon and Cornwall or Mirfield in West Yorkshire, all named with the Old English elements myrige ‘pleasant’ + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’ (see Field).
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Welsh
Welsh : from the Welsh personal name Meurig, a form of Maurice, Latin Mauritius (see Morris).English : from an Old French personal name introduced to Britain by the Normans, composed of the Germanic elements meri, mari ‘fame’ + rīc ‘power’.Scottish : habitational name from a place near Minigaff in the county of Dumfries and Galloway, so called from Gaelic meurach ‘branch or fork of a road or river’.Irish : when not Welsh or English in origin, probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mearadhaigh (see Merry).
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n.
A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum.
n.
One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.
v. i.
To make merry; to be jolly; to feast.
n.
A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
superl.
Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest.
a.
Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet.
a.
Relaxed; hence; merry; cheerful.
n.
A drinking together; a merry feast.
v. t.
To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
n.
The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.
n.
A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
v. i.
To join in the festivities of Shrovetide; hence, to make merry.
a.
Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion.
n.
A horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round.
a.
Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.
a.
Of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happening where company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings.
n.
A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.
n.
The act of making merry; conviviality; merriment; jollity.
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Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute.
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Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.