Namely, 71

NAMELY

eponyms (EP-uh-nimz)

words based on or derived from a person's name.

First Known Use: mid-19^th century

“What’s in a Name?”

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 2.2­­

71: grog, groggy: rum or other liquor diluted with water (from grogram—a coarse fabric of silk and mohair or silk and wool—after Sir Edward Vernon, 1684–1757, British admiral known as “old Groggy” for wearing a gogram cloak. Later, the word was clipped, and the meaning transferred to the diluted drink he served his sailors; first known use of word, 1756)

I saw last night a little froggy

Who was acting kind of groggy,

So I asked him, “Hey, you, frog, Yo?

Have you been dipping in the grog, Bro?”

Well, I had thought that I joked, see?

But up he hopped and quickly croaked—gee!