Jeremy vs Jezzer - What's the difference?
jeremy | jezzer |
, English form of Jeremiah. Also used to anglicize Irish Diarmaid (Dermot).
* 1611 King James Version of the Bible: Matthew 2:17 :
* 1840 John Bowring: Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, p.169 :
As proper nouns the difference between jeremy and jezzer
is that jeremy is while jezzer is a nickname for jeremy or geoff or jeff.jeremy
English
Proper noun
(en-proper noun) (plural Jeremys )- Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet.
- He had the name of Jeremy given to him, because Jeremiah, as his father said, was a family name; and there was an advantage in curtailing a syllable, and in showing a preference towards the names of the New Testament over those of the old.