Jeffery vs Geoffrey - What's the difference?
jeffery | geoffrey | Alternative forms |
. Popular in the U.K. in the 20th century.
* 1879 Mary Elizabeth Shipley: Looking Back . page 98:
* 1996 Mary Higgins Clark: Let me Call You Sweetheart . ISBN 0671568175 page 207:
* 2011 , Lasting Damage , Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978 0340980651, pages 77-78:
Geoffrey is a alternative form of jeffery.
As proper nouns the difference between jeffery and geoffrey
is that jeffery is a given name derived from Germanic, a spelling variant of Jeffrey while Geoffrey is a given name derived from Germanic. Popular in the U.K. in the 20th century.geoffrey
English
(wikipedia Geoffrey)Alternative forms
* Jeffrey * Jeffery * (archaic) GeffreyProper noun
(en proper noun)- "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."
- 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.
- 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.