Shirley
English
Etymology
English place name form Old English scīr (“county”) + lēah (“meadow”). More at shire, leigh.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)li
- Homophone: surely (some dialects)
Proper noun
Shirley
- An English habitational surname
- (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname. Popular from the 1920s to the 1950s.
- Any of various places in England, including suburbs of London, Birmingham and Southampton.
Quotations
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):: Act V, Scene IV:
- Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like / Never to hold it up again! the spirits / Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms.
- 1849 Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, Chapter XI:
- 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) - - -
- 1921 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside, Chapter 2:
- 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.
- 1951 Alice Tisdale Hobart, The Serpent-Wreathed Staff, Bobbs-Merrill, page 50:
- "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."
Adverb
Shirley (not comparable)
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from English, a given name transferred from the habitational surname, from Old English scīr+lēah.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Shir‧ley
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