Meaning of Shirley | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An English habitational surname
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   rare
3. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular from the 1920s to the 1950s.
4. Various places in England:
5. A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2141).
6. A suburb of the borough of Croydon, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3565).
7. A hamlet in Sopley parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ1798).
8. A suburb of Southampton, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4013).
9. A suburban town in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, historically in Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP1278).
10. Various places in the United States:
11. A town in Van Buren County, Arkansas.
12. An unincorporated community in Kings County, California.
13. An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado.
14. An unincorporated community in McLean County, Illinois.
15. A town in Hancock County and Henry County, Indiana.
16. A town in Piscataquis County, Maine.
17. A town and census-designated place in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
18. An unincorporated community in Polk County, Minnesota.
19. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
20. A hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York.
21. A hamlet in Erie County, New York.
22. An unincorporated community in Charles City County, Virginia.
23. An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia.
24. An unincorporated community in Brown County, Wisconsin.
25. A suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Equivalents

Examples

“Hold⟳ vp they head, vile Scot, or thou art like⟳ / Neuer to hold⟳ it vp againe! the spirits / Of valiant Sherley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my Armes;”

“Shirley Blythe was with Una Meredith and both were rather silent because such was their nature. Shirley was a lad of sixteen, sedate, sensible, thoughtful, full of a quiet humour.”

“Shirley Keeldar (she had no christian name⟳ but Shirley: her parents, who had wished to have⟳ a son, finding that, after eight years of marriage, Providence had granted them only a daughter, bestowed on her the same masculine family cognomen they would have⟳ bestowed on a boy, if with a boy they had been blessed)—[…]”

“"Why a girl like⟳ you should be named Shirley is beyond me. You haven't a ruffle or a furbelow anywhere in your nature." "Is that meant for an insult?" she asked, flushing angrily. "No, it's just that it's incongruous. You are the 'give⟳ us this day our daily bread' sort⟳ of person. Shirley is party stuff."”

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