Geoffrey
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdʒɛfɹi/
- A male given name. Popular in the U.K. in the 20th century.
- 1879 Mary Elizabeth Shipley: Looking Back. page 98:
- "Were you not aware mamma had a son as well as three daughters?"
- "Yes, but I didn't know his name. I like Geoffrey; there's some sound in it."
- 1996 Mary Higgins Clark: Let me Call You Sweetheart. ISBN 0671568175 page 207:
- Geoff grimaced, then smiled back, reminding himself that when his mother wasn't riding this horse, she was a very interesting woman who had taught medieval literature at Drew University for twenty years. In fact, he had been named Geoffrey because of her great admiration for Chaucer.
- 2011 Sophie Hannah, Lasting Damage, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978 0340980651, pages 77-78:
- His full name is Benji Duncan Geoffrey Rigby-Monk. 'You're joking,' Kit said, when I first told him.
' Benji? Not even Benjamin?' Duncan and Geoffrey are his two granddads'names ― both unglamorous and old-dufferish, in Kit's view, and not worth inflicting on a new generation ― and Rigby-Monk is a fusion of Fran's surname and Anton's.
- His full name is Benji Duncan Geoffrey Rigby-Monk. 'You're joking,' Kit said, when I first told him.
- 1879 Mary Elizabeth Shipley: Looking Back. page 98:
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