Meaning of Humphrey | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
2. A surname originating as a patronymic.

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Examples

“I neuer ſaw but Humfrey Duke of Gloſter, / Did beare him like a Noble Gentleman: […]”

“"Hump?" I asked. "Humphrey, really. But everybody calls him Hump. I know a lot of people who avoid calling him by his first name. For a long time people didn't think it was quite proper. But nowadays nobody seems to mind. What's happening to the power of words, Benny? Time was I used to blush at the words scrawled on fences, and now I hear them—everywhere. How are writers going to write books if language is going bland on them?"”

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