What is the name meaning of BURL. Phrases containing BURL
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English
English : variant spelling of Burley.Probably an altered spelling of Swiss German Beerli, from a short form of the Germanic personal name Berilo, from Old High German bero ‘bear’.Possibly an Anglicized spelling of French Berlet, from a diminutive of Berle, a topographic name from Old French berle ‘water parsnip’ (of Celtic origin, compare Welsh berur, Gaelic biorar ‘watercress’), or perhaps an occupational name for a grower of the plant.
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English : habitational name from Bridlington in East Yorkshire. The place name, which was formerly pronounced locally as Burlington, is recorded in Domesday Book as Bretlinton ‘estate (Old English tūn) associated with a man called Berhtel’.
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English (chiefly Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire) : from an Old English personal name, Merewine, Merefinn, or MÇ£rwynn (see Marvin).The first Murfins in North America were Nottinghamshire Quakers. Robert and Ann Murfin and their daughter Mary sailed from Hull, England, in 1678 on the ship Shield of Stockton and settled at Chesterfield, near Burlington, NJ.
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English
English : perhaps a patronymic (meaning ‘son of the butler’) from Burl.Aaron Burleson emigrated from England to NC in 1726.
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English (Essex and Cambridgeshire)
English (Essex and Cambridgeshire) : probably a habitational name from a place in Kent named Birling, from an Old English personal name Bǣrla + the suffix -ingas denoting ‘family or followers’. There is also a Birling (of the same derivation) in Northumberland, but this appears not to have contributed significantly to the modern surname.
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English : possibly, as Reaney proposes, an ethnic name for someone from Burgundy, France, from a variant Old French bouguignon ‘Burgundian’, but more probably a variant of the more frequent English surname Burling.Altered spelling of Berlin.
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English
English : variant spelling of Burleson.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Hampshire, Rutland, Shropshire, and West Yorkshire, named Burley from Old English burh ‘fortified manor’, ‘stronghold’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.Americanized spelling of Swiss German Bürli, from a diminutive of būr ‘peasant’, ‘farmer’ (see Bauer).
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English
English : variant of Wetherell.Christopher Wetherill emigrated from England to Burlington, NJ, in 1683.
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English
British place name.
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German
Son of Berl. See also Burl.
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English
Lives at the castle's meadow.
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : habitational name from Burlingham in Norfolk ‘homestead (Old English hÄm) of Bærla’s or Byrla’s people’, or from Birlingham in Worcestershire ‘enclosure (Old English hamm) of Byrla’s people’.
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English
Fortified. See also Berlyn.
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English
English : unexplained.
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English
English : variant spelling of Burley 1.
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English
English : habitational name from places in Cheshire and East Yorkshire named Burland. The first is named with Old English (ge)būr ‘peasant’ + land ‘land’; the second from Old English b̄re ‘byre’, ‘cow shed’ + land.
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English American Teutonic
Lives at the castle's meadow.
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English American
Forest; cup bearer.
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English Teutonic
Lives at the castle's meadow. Fortified. See also Berlyn.
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n.
One who burls or dresses cloth.
n.
One who burlesques.
imp. & p. p.
of Burl
a.
Of or pertaining to satyrs; burlesque; as, satyric tragedy.
n.
Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
n.
Tumult; bustle; confusion.
n.
The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.
v. i.
To employ burlesque.
n.
A letter containing professions of love, or a missive of a sentimental, comic, or burlesque character, sent on St. Valentine's Day.
a.
Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.
n.
A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.
a. & n.
Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Burl
imp. & p. p.
of Burlesque
a.
Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.
n.
A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.
n.
Quality of being burly.
n.
A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Burlesque
n.
A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.