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alfred

English

(Alfred the Great)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • Alfred the Great, early king of England
  • .
  • * 1980 Graham Greene: Doctor Fisher of Geneva, or the Bomb Party
    • Unfortunately for me my father had combined diplomacy with a study of Anglo-Saxon history and, of course with my mother's consent, he gave me the name of Alfred , one of his heroes ( I believe she had boggled at Aelfred ). This Christian name, for some inexplicable reason, had become corrupted in the eyes of our middle-class world; it belonged exclusively now to the working class and was usually abbreviated to Alf. Perhaps that was why Doctor Fisher, the inventor of Dentophil Bouquet, never called me anything but Jones, even after I married his daughter.
  • * 1998 , A Place Like This , Univ. of Queensland Press, ISBN 0702229849, page 86:
    • You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred , or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life.

    Related terms

    * Alf, Alfie * Alfreda

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    fred

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A short version of Frederick, Alfred, or Wilfred, also used as a formal male given name.
  • (military, slang) Nickname for the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, widely used by USAF aircrews.

    • Quotations

    * 1892 Robert Grant: The Reflections of a Married Man . Scribner,1892. pages 98-99: *: When I referred to the confusion which would result from the presence in the house of two people with the same name, she tossed her head and said it would be easy to obviate that by calling me Frederick instead of Fred . - - - Imagine Harry Bolles and other kindred spirits calling me stiff, august Frederick! I vowed that this should not be brought to pass - - - * 2002 Fred Hill: You May as Well Laugh: The Columns of Fred Hill . iUniverse ISBN 0595256848 page 59: *: I had great parents, but they made one major mistake. They named me Fred'. I'm sorry in case other '''Freds''' read this, but ' Fred is a rather weak name. It just sort of fades away on the tongue. It's not positive like Matt or Jim or Mike or Luke. English diminutives of male given names ----