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ETYMOLOGY of obscure origin: perhaps originally a name of some bird (From Murray's N.E.D.: "the suggestion that it is from meek (adj.) is untenable") EXAMPLE From: The Plays of William Shakspeare Volume the Third, Printed 1778 Taming of the Shrew, Act II. Scene I. P. 452
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