Comments on: Eponymous Words http://www.aloveofwords.com/2009/09/14/eponymous-words/ words from a linguistics-obsessed word-origin-seeking bookworm Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Tanya http://www.aloveofwords.com/2009/09/14/eponymous-words/comment-page-1/#comment-1260 Tanya Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:49:52 +0000 http://www.aloveofwords.com/?p=81#comment-1260 The word hooligan might also be an eponymous word. Here is what an online etymologycal dictionary says about it: "1890s, of unknown origin, first found in British newspaper police-court reports in the summer of 1898, almost certainly from the surname Houlihan, supposedly from a lively family of that name in London (who figured in music hall songs of the decade). Internationalized 20c. in communist rhetoric as Rus. khuligan, opprobrium for "scofflaws, political dissenters, etc." The word hooligan might also be an eponymous word. Here is what an online etymologycal dictionary says about it: “1890s, of unknown origin, first found in British newspaper police-court reports in the summer of 1898, almost certainly from the surname Houlihan, supposedly from a lively family of that name in London (who figured in music hall songs of the decade). Internationalized 20c. in communist rhetoric as Rus. khuligan, opprobrium for “scofflaws, political dissenters, etc.”

]]> By: Cindy http://www.aloveofwords.com/2009/09/14/eponymous-words/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Cindy Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:49:14 +0000 http://www.aloveofwords.com/?p=81#comment-51 Graham makes sense, Dewey, Everest, and Paseurization....and Zamboni...I actually KNOW what that machine is... but guillotine, and shrapnel and NARCISSIM... wouldn't have guessed. this was a fun one.... Graham makes sense, Dewey, Everest, and Paseurization….and Zamboni…I actually KNOW what that machine is…

but guillotine, and shrapnel and NARCISSIM…
wouldn’t have guessed.

this was a fun one….

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