Richard vs Dave - What's the difference?
richard | dave |
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* ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene II :
* 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed'', ''The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862) , volume 3, page 212:
* 1985 , , Pride , ISBN 0394536363, page 97:
A diminutive of the male given name David.
* 1994 , The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays , Counterpoint Press 2004, ISBN 1582433135, page 169, 170:
As proper nouns the difference between richard and dave
is that richard is a given name derived from Germanic while Dave is a diminutive of the male given name David.As a verb dave is
to assuage; soften; mitigate; relieve; calm; alleviate (pain).richard
English
Proper noun
(s)- What! do I fear myself? there's no one else by; / Richard' loves ' Richard ; that is, I am I.
- But we have known Williams and Richards , names not found in sacred story, but familiar to our country, prove as gracious saints as any Safe deliverance'', ''Fight the good fight of faith , or such like,
- I'd love to live in our castle. First I'd change my name from Dickie to Richard . That's my real name and it's a good king name. I don't like being called Dickie anyway, and I don't want to be Dick Junior either because everybody starts calling you Junior. What I'd like to be called is Rich but I don't know how to start people doing it.
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.