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kim | hannah |

As a noun kim

is pincers, clamp.

As a proper noun hannah is

mother of the prophet samuel in the old testament.

kim

English

Alternative forms

* Gim (Korean surname )

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
  • * 1901 , Chapter 1
    • The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim ’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
  • used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
  • * 1926 , Show Boat , Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
    • Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. - - - It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born .
  • * 1991 , Mao II , Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16
    • It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim'. She has known girls named '''Kim''' since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain ' Kims .
  • ), the most common Korean surname.

    • hannah

    English

    Proper noun

    (s)
  • Mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament.
  • *
    • Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah , why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am I not better to thee than ten sons?
  • .
  • * 1959 , Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories , Houghton Mifflin 1959, page 116
    • "What about Hannah Schreiber?"
    He smiled, flashing some gold in his mouth. "How do you like that name? She was only a girl, but she had an old lady's name. - - -
  • * 2002 (Kate Atkinson), Not the End of the World , Doubleday, ISBN 0385604726, page 33:
    • She could buy pretty clothes for a girl and plait her hair with ribbons. And she could call her a nice, old-fashioned, middle-class name like Sarah or Emma or Hannah .

    Related terms

    * Anna