merle
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of merle
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula.
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noun
- The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula.
- Any blackbird.
- (countable, uncountable)A type of mottled coloration on dogs.
- (countable, uncountable)A dog having this coloration.
name
- A surname from French of French origin.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
“Merle Haggard is a name out of a morality play. And that's the kind of songs he sings.”
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A female given name from English.
“Her name was Merle, and to her name she always said she owed the fact that Gilbert Vanborough ever looked at her.”
“"I wish I had a name like Merle Oberon or Miriam Hopkins," Mary Agnes said dreamily as she scanned the display of Coming Attractions.”
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Etymology
From Middle English merle, from Old French merle (French merle), from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (whence the directly borrowed Middle English merule, and compare the taxonomic name Turdus merula), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂mes- (“black, blackbird”). Compare Breton moualch (“ouzel”), Welsh mwyalch (“blackbird, thrush”). Distantly related to the synonymous ouzel.
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