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WRIG
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a maker of carts, from Middle English cart(e) + wright ‘craftsman’ (see Wright). The surname is attested from the late 13th century, although the vocabulary word does not occur before the 15th century.
Boy/Male
Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English
Craftsman; Carpenter
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a maker of wheels, from Middle English whele ‘wheel’ (Old English hwēol) + wyrhta ‘wright’. See also Wheeler.John Wheelwright (c. 1592–1679), clergyman, came to Boston, MA, from Lincolnshire, England in 1636. He was banished from Massachusettes for his support of his sister-in-law, Anne Hutchinson, in the antinomian controversy; he set up a community at Exeter, NH.
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English
English : occupational name for a chest maker, from Middle English, Old French arc ‘chest’, ‘bin’ + Middle English wright ‘maker’, ‘craftsman’ (see Wright).
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English
English : occupational name for someone who chopped up wood into tinder, Middle English dethewright, from dethe ‘fuel’, ‘tinder’ + wright ‘maker’.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Wrigveda
Surname or Lastname
English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from Wrigley Head near Salford, the second element of which is presumably Old English lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’; the first may be a personal name or topographical term from Old English wrigian ‘to strive’, ‘to bend or turn’.
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English
English : occupational name for a boat builder, from Middle English bot(e) ‘boat’ + wright ‘maker’, ‘craftsman’.
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.Common New England Americanized form of French Le Droit, a nickname for an upright person, a man of probity, from Old French droit ‘right’, in which there has been confusion between the homophones right and wright.
Boy/Male
English American Anglo Saxon
Craftsman.
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English
English : variant spelling of Wrigley.
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English
English : patronymic from Wright.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire) : occupational name for a maker of carts or wagons, Middle English waynwright (see Wayne + Wright).
Boy/Male
English American
Craftsman; wagon-wright; wagon driver. Famous Bearer: U.S. Actor John Wayne.
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English wryhta/wyrhta, WRIGHT means "craftsman."
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Sikh
One absorbed in divine light and knowledge
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin) and French
English (of Norman origin) and French : status name for a professional champion, especially an agent employed to represent one of the parties in a trial by combat, a method of settling disputes current in the Middle Ages. The word comes from Old French champion, campion (Late Latin campio, genitive campionis, a derivative of campus ‘plain’, ‘field of battle’). Compare Campion, Kemp.
Boy/Male
Indian
The sword of honors, The leader lion of the herd
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Shepherd
Girl/Female
Hindu
One who pleases others, Another name for Durga, Lord Shivas bull
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
The Supreme Truth; Intelligent
Boy/Male
Anglo Saxon English
Sea lover.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Victorious
Girl/Female
Australian, French, Greek
Shining Light; Similar to Helen
Boy/Male
Polynesian
Bird.
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n.
A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.
v. i.
To wriggle.
imp. & p. p.
of Wriggle
n.
A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine.
v. i.
To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Wriggle
n.
Act of wiggling; a wriggle.
n.
One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.
v. t.
To move with short, quick contortions; to move by twisting and squirming; like a worm.
v. i.
To twist about briskly with contor/ions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.
v. i.
See Wriggle.
v. t.
To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles in the water.
a.
Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible.
v. i.
To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.
v. i.
To wriggle.
n.
One who, or that which, wriggles.