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algernon
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, literally "with mustaches," from Old French als gernons , from a les "to the, with the" + gernon , variant of grenon "mustache," from Vulgar Latin *granonem , from a Germanic source (compare Old English granu "mustache").
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Algernon may refer to: Algernon (name) , a given name (includes a list of people and characters with the name) Algernon Township, Custer County, Nebraska
Usage examples of algernon.
My guess is that her sole interest in Lord Algernon is the fact that he will one day become Duke of Grandcastle.
She had fallen back on her plan to marry Lord Algernon, and expected him to arrive for her at any moment in his carriage.
Uncle Algernon shambled in to see his nephew before the supper was finished, and his more genial presence brought out a little of the plot.
He led to it repeatedly, and it was constantly evaded by Algernon and Adrian.
Hippias usually the silent member, as if awakened by the unnatural stillness, became sprightly, like the goatsucker owl at night and spoke much of his book, his digestion, and his dreams, and was spared both by Algernon and Adrian.
Then we had a consultation at home Austin Rady my father Uncle Algernon who has come down to us again and your friend in prosperity and adversity R.
He remembered by the time reflection returned to him that it was Algernon, who had the house at his disposal, probably giving a card-party, or something of the sort.
Hippias offering to decide what her chances were in law, and Algernon to give a common-sense judgment.
Breakfast done, they bequeathed the consoling information for Algernon that they were off to hear a popular preacher, and departed.
His uncle Algernon was leisurely jolting towards them on his one sound leg.
He sighted his melancholy uncle Algernon hunting an appetite in the Row, and looking as if the hope ahead of him were also one-legged.
To resume your uncle Algernon still roams in pursuit of the lost one--I should say, hops.
Algernon Feverel treated his nephew with a sort of rough commiseration, as a young fellow who had run off the road.
Sidney Algernon Burley was entertaining a gay luncheon company, in a sumptuous drawing-room on Telegraph Hill, with some capital imitations of the voices and gestures of certain popular actors and San Franciscan literary people and Bonanza grandees.
Sidney Algernon Burley entered, clad from head to heel in dazzling snow--that is to say, in the lightest and whitest of Irish linen.