Bridget - What does it mean?
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* 2000 David Pierce: Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader . Cork University Press. ISBN 1859182585 pages 8-9:
bridget
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - and when Mistress Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took't upon mine honour thou hadst it not.
- Of all the beautiful Christian names of women which were in use a century or two ago Brighid (Breed) , under the ugly form of Bridget , or still worse, Biddy, and Eiblin under the form of Eveleen, and perhaps Norah, seem to be the only survivals, and they are becoming rarer.