Shawn
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- A male given name, popular in the US in the 1970s.
- 1996 Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question: Stories, Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0679402187, page 141
- Or take Sean, S-E-A-N. Been spelled like that for about five hundred years. But not them, they've gotta spell it S-H-A-W-N. Like they have a right to that name in the first place.
- 1996 Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question: Stories, Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0679402187, page 141
- A female given name, transferred from the male name.
- 1984, Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Bantam Books 1987, ISBN 0553268082, page 169
- Two weeks later Dot and her girl, who was finally named Shawn, like most girls born that year, came back to work at the scales.
- 1984, Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Bantam Books 1987, ISBN 0553268082, page 169
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