Dave vs Deirdre - What's the difference?
dave | deirdre |
A diminutive of the male given name David.
* 1994 , The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays , Counterpoint Press 2004, ISBN 1582433135, page 169, 170:
(Irish mythology) The foremost tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Fedlimid mac Daill. At birth, Cathbad foretold that she would be very beautiful, but that kings and lords would go to war over her. She committed suicide.
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* 1885 Frances Mabel Robinson, Mr. Butler's Ward , Vizetelly, page 95:
A beautiful, but suicidal woman.
As a verb dave
is to assuage; soften; mitigate; relieve; calm; alleviate (pain).As a proper noun deirdre is
(irish mythology) the foremost tragic heroine in the ulster cycle of irish mythology daughter of fedlimid mac daill at birth, cathbad foretold that she would be very beautiful, but that kings and lords would go to war over her she committed suicide.dave
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- David, with its final "d", sounds finished and complete, whereas Dave' just kind of hangs there in the air, indefinitely. - - - Worse, if your name is ' Dave , the only possible nickname is "Davey", which makes you sound like you should be wearing a coonskin cap.
Anagrams
* * * English diminutives of male given namesdeirdre
English
(wikipedia Deirdre)Alternative forms
* (in mythology)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Deirdre , it seemed to him, was the most beautiful name in the world. But Mrs. Stanley had different views on nomenclature. She had never, she declared, heard so utterly preposterous a name. - - -"Theatre and saltpetre are both spelt that way, Arthur; depend upon it, it is Deirder - a sort of peasant name like Darby and Biddy, a corruption of something else."