Ollie

See also: ollie

English

Etymology

From Germanic, from Latin olivarius (olive tree) (from oliva (olive)), and from Welsh.

Proper noun

Ollie

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Oliver.
  2. A diminutive of the female given names Olivia, Olive and Olwen.
    • 1994 Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, Viking 1995, →ISBN, page 429:
      To my surprise and pleasure, it was Olwen that Esme chose to use when speaking of, and to, the baby - though she showed an unhappy tendency to shorten it to Ollie, in spite of my protests that this brought to mind not a stately princess, but the fat man in the Laurel and Hardy comedy series.

Dutch

Proper noun

Ollie

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Oliver
  2. A diminutive of the male given name Olivier
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