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  • 111Nazem Kadri — Born …

    Wikipedia

  • 112Nino Niederreiter — Born …

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  • 113Cafe — This ancient surname, in its many different forms has a French origination. It derives from the word chauf or Latin calvus meaning bald and hence was given as a nickname in medieval times to people of that desciption. The introduction into… …

    Surnames reference

  • 114Caffin — This ancient surname, in its many different forms has a French origination. It derives from the word chauf or Latin calvus meaning bald and hence was given as a nickname in medieval times to people of that desciption. The introduction into… …

    Surnames reference

  • 115Rooke — Recorded as Rook, Rooke, Rouke, Ruke, Rookes and possibly others, this interesting surname is medieval English. It was originally a nickname given to one who had some fancied resemblance to the bird, maybe of dark hair and complexion, or perhaps… …

    Surnames reference

  • 116Rouke — Recorded as Rook, Rooke, Rouke, Ruke, Rookes and possibly others, this interesting surname is medieval English. It was originally a nickname given to one who had some fancied resemblance to the bird, maybe of dark hair and complexion, or perhaps… …

    Surnames reference

  • 117módigan — wv/i2 to grow proud or overbearing, be high minded, glory, exult, show bravery; take offence through pride …

    Old to modern English dictionary

  • 118módigian — wv/i2 to grow proud or overbearing, be high minded, glory, exult, show bravery; take offence through pride …

    Old to modern English dictionary

  • 119bridle — [OE] The Old English word was brīdel, which came from the same source (Germanic *bregd ) as braid. The basic meaning element of this was something like ‘pull or twitch jerkily from side to side’, so the application to bridle, which one pulls on… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 120hump — I. vb 1. to have sex (with). Once a fashionable word for copulation , according to the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, 1785, hump is now scarcely fashionable but is still a widespread vulgarism, often in the form humping . See also dry… …

    Contemporary slang