Barnaby
Noun
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Noun
Barnaby (uncountable)
- (archaic) A lively and fast-paced dance; (by extension) any quick and uneven movement.
- 1640-1687, Charles Cotton, in his burlesque of Virgil:
- Bounce cry the port-holes, out they fly
And make the world dance Barnaby.
- Bounce cry the port-holes, out they fly
- 1640-1687, Charles Cotton, in his burlesque of Virgil:
- A male given name, from the medieval vernacular form of Barnabas.
- 1595 Edmund Spenser, Epithalamium
- This day the sun is in his chiefest height
- With Barnaby the Bright.
- 1848 John O'Donovan, The Annals of the Four Masters, The Dublin University Magazine, 1848, Vol.31, page 577
- The name Barnaby may strike the reader as out of place in so Celtic a pedigree; but this was an anglicisation of the true name, Brian Oge - - - Now, times are altered, and his anglicised descendants will probably begin to use Brian as a family name again, rejecting Barnaby as less respectable.
- 1962 Edward Eager, Seven-Day Magic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999, ISBN 0152020780, page 8
- Barnaby liked his own name. He was proud of its differentness and would never answer to "Barney", or any other nickname.
- 2000 Alexei Sayle, Barcelona Plates
- But instead of pressing the button that would have taped the play she pressed the button that activated the built-in microphone and recorded a hundred and twenty minutes of hers and Barnaby's home life, which aurally consisted of 'Want a cup of tea?' 'No thanks.'
- 1595 Edmund Spenser, Epithalamium
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