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Geoffrey - What does it mean?

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geoffrey

Alternative forms

* Jeffrey * Jeffery * (archaic) Geffrey

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • . Popular in the U.K. in the 20th century.
  • * 1879 Mary Elizabeth Shipley: Looking Back . page 98:
  • "Were you not aware mamma had a son as well as three daughters?"
    "Yes, but I didn't know his name. I like Geoffrey ; there's some sound in it."
  • * 1996 Mary Higgins Clark: Let me Call You Sweetheart . ISBN 0671568175 page 207:
  • Geoff grimaced, then smiled back, reminding himself that when his mother wasn't riding this horse, she was a very interesting woman who had taught medieval literature at Drew University for twenty years. In fact, he had been named Geoffrey because of her great admiration for Chaucer.
  • * 2011 , Lasting Damage , Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978 0340980651, pages 77-78:
  • His full name is Benji Duncan Geoffrey' Rigby-Monk. 'You're joking,' Kit said, when I first told him. '''Benji''? Not even Benjamin?' Duncan and ' Geoffrey are his two granddads'names ? both unglamorous and old-dufferish, in Kit's view, and not worth inflicting on a new generation ? and Rigby-Monk is a fusion of Fran's surname and Anton's.

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