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MORRIS
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English
English : variant of Moores.Dutch : from the personal name Maurits (see Morris).
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Welsh
Welsh : from the Welsh personal name Meurig, a form of Maurice, Latin Mauritius (see Morris).English : from an Old French personal name introduced to Britain by the Normans, composed of the Germanic elements meri, mari ‘fame’ + rīc ‘power’.Scottish : habitational name from a place near Minigaff in the county of Dumfries and Galloway, so called from Gaelic meurach ‘branch or fork of a road or river’.Irish : when not Welsh or English in origin, probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mearadhaigh (see Merry).
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English Scottish
Dark-skinned. A Moor. Form of Maurice.
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Irish
Choice of the sea.
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Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Moorish
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Christian, Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, Jamaican, Latin
Son of More; Sea-strength; Moor; Dark Skinned
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English, Welsh, and Scottish
English, Welsh, and Scottish : variant of Morris.Dutch and North German : variant of Moritz.French : variant of Maurice.Latvian : nickname for a dark person, from Moris ‘Moor’, ‘Negro’. Compare Moore 2.Lithuanian : possibly a nickname from morỹs ‘lazy person’.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : variant of Morris 1.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : patronymic from Morris.
Male
English
Medieval English form of Roman Latin Maurice, MORRIS means "dark-skinned; Moor."
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English
English : variant spelling of Moores.Dutch : nickname for a man of swarthy complexion or ethnic name for a North African, from moor ‘Moor’ (see Moore 2).Dutch : patronymic from a short form of the Latin personal name Mauritius (see Morris 1).
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British, English, Welsh
Dark-skinned; A Moor; Form of Morris
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British, English, Latin, Scottish
Son of Maurice; Son of the Servant of Mary
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from Maurice, an Old French personal name introduced to Britain by the Normans, Latin Mauritius, a derivative of Maurus (see Moore). This was the name of several early Christian saints. In some cases it may be a nickname of the same derivation for someone with a swarthy complexion.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muirghis, a variant of Ó Muirgheasa (see Morrissey).Welsh : Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Meurig (from Latin Mauritius), which was gradually superseded in Wales by Morus, Morys, a derivative of the Anglo-Norman French form of the name (see 1).German : variant of Moritz.Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish surnames (see Morse).Morris was the name of an extensive and powerful family in colonial North America, whose members played a leading part in the emergence of the nation. They were descended from Richard Morris (d. 1672), who fought in Oliver Cromwell’s army and then became a merchant in Barbados. His son Lewis (1671–1746) established the “manor†of Morrisania in NY. His grandson, Lewis (1726–98), third owner of that manor, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Two other grandsons, Richard and Gouverneur, were also key figures in the Revolution. Their half-brother Staats Morris (1728–1800) was a general in the British army who was appointed governor of Quebec.
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English American Latin
Son of More.
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English
English : variant spelling of Morris 1.
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English
English : variant spelling of Morrison.
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English
English : variant of Morris 1.
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American, British, English
Son of More
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n.
A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish.
a.
Not arrayed in the dress of a morris dancer.
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An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played.
n.
A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture.
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A Moorish pike.
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A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets.
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The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.
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A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris.
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A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters.
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Same as 1st Morris.
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A morris dancer.