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PETTY
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Egyptian
, a petty king of Egypt.
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Muslim
Petty, Handsome
Male
African
a petty chief.
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English
English : from Old French petit ‘little’ + the personal name John, hence a nickname for a little man (or an ironic nickname for a big man; compare the character Little John in the legend of Robin Hood) named John.
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Americanized form of French Petitjean.English
Americanized form of French Petitjean.English : variant spelling of Pettyjohn.
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Hindu, Indian
Sail; Petty Trade
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Reduced form of Irish McCage, a variant of McCaig.English (East Anglia)
Reduced form of Irish McCage, a variant of McCaig.English (East Anglia) : from Middle English, Old French cage ‘cage’, ‘enclosure’ (Latin cavea ‘container’, ‘cave’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker and seller of small cages for animals or birds, or a keeper of the large public cage in which petty criminals were confined for short periods of imprisonment.
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English
English : variant of Petit. The name is also found in Ireland, the main branch there having been established in County Kerry in the 17th century by Sir William Petty.
Boy/Male
Indian
Petty, Handsome
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English
English : from Middle English pyion, peion ‘young bird’, ‘young pigeon’ (from Old French pijon), a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of wood pigeons or a nickname for a foolish or gullible person, since the birds were easily taken.English : altered form of the nickname Pet(y)jon (see Pettyjohn).Irish (County Monaghan) : local form of McGuigan, from Gaelic Mac Uiginn ‘son of the Viking’.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Sail, Petty trade
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Tamil
Sail, Petty trade
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Tamil
Maargit | மாரà¯à®•ீத
Pearl
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English
English : habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
Boy/Male
British, English
Shepherd
Male
Russian
(Георгий) Russian form of Greek Georgios, GEORGII means "earth-worker, farmer."
Boy/Male
Muslim
Leader, Guide, Coach
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Son of Shakuntala-bharat
Biblical
Buying, Possession
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
A field of wild roses
Boy/Male
Tamil
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One who has a trident in his hands, Lord Shiva
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Hindu, Indian
Small
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v. t.
To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
v. t.
To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
n.
A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain.
n.
A petty or powerless king.
v. t.
To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
n.
One who practices petty thefts.
n.
A petty or inferior Whig; -- used in contempt.
v. i.
To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
n.
A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity.
n.
Inferior or subordinate work; petty business.
v. i.
To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts.
v. t. & i.
Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
a.
A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.
superl.
Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.
superl.
Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
a.
Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.
n.
A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
n.
Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices.
n.
A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.
n.
The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.