Definitions

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  • proper noun A male given name.

Etymologies

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Welsh Merfyn, probably from mer ("marrow") + myn ("eminent").

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Examples

  • We once saw a gangsite who looked alot like Mervyn, so we called our Mervyn, Mervyn gansite.

    jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2004

  • Leicester, or the like, fifty feet under ground, rather than I would put them into that upper chamber yonder that they call Mervyn's Bower.

    Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

  • a hoarse and contemptuous tone, "Pray, is your name Mervyn?"

    Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790

  • Muff - real name Mervyn but known as Muffin after the popular mule of the time - gave up playing when his brother Steve left to form Traffic.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Earth calling Mervyn: We've got a government intent on dismantling society, putting one in ten out of work, massively increasing poverty, homelessness and social instability...and we're supposed to be focusing on gender imbalance in the boardroom?

    Let's put women first in 2011 | Mervyn Davies 2010

  • BBCStephanie If the PM really wants us all to repay our debts he shd have a word with Mervyn King.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Matthew Sparkes 2011

  • BBCStephanie If the PM really wants us all to repay our debts he shd have a word with Mervyn King.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Matthew Sparkes 2011

  • Tower, at no great distance from that called Mervyn's, began to send its pealing clamour abroad, in signal of the arrival of the royal procession, the din was so painfully acute to ears rendered nervously sensitive by anxiety, that she could hardly forbear shrieking with anguish, in answer to every stunning clash of the relentless peal.

    Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

  • I approached her with a confidence and for a purpose at which, upon reflection, I am not a little surprised; but the being called Mervyn is not the same in her company and in that of another.

    Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790

  • I managed to interview Lord Davies - happy to be called Mervyn - prior to him addressing a conference organised by the Institute of Welsh Affairs in Cardiff.

    WalesOnline - Home 2010

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