NAMELY
EP-oh-nimz
a word based on
or derived from a person's name.
First Known Use: mid-19th
century
“What’s in a
Name?”
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 2.2
11. chauvinist: a person with an exaggerated devotion towards a gender, person or group;
a person with excessive patriotism (from Nicolas Chauvin, character in a play, La Concorde tricolore, 1831, a devoted
follower of Napoleon; play written by Hippolyte Cogniard; first use 1851)
You call someone a chauvinist?
You just might get smacked on the wrist—
Or meet, up close, a human fist.
The word has broadened meaning now—
Applied to other things somehow,
Like maleness (which I disavow!).
I’d not known where this word was born—
Suspected France (I could have sworn).
Would this word fit, oh, Jason Bourne?
the Cogniard brothers |
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