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Georg

proper noun

  1. male given name
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Wiktionary

name

Etymology: From Danish, Estonian, Faroese, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Georg, from Latin Geōrgius. The slang sense is from Spiders Georg.

  1. A male given name, a Scandinavian and continental Germanic variant of George.

    “Ah!” Georg said, noncommittal. “A problem I think you may have had,” the man said. “I got drunk and didn't wake up.” “Yes,” Georg said. “I've been known to do that. Last night, in fact. And the night before.”

    Georg said nothing as he glanced toward Cameron, who stuck his head over the edge of the loft again. “Rest easy, Georg,” Cameron said. “Next week I'll be on my honeymoon, and your worries will be over.”

  2. A surname transferred from the given name.
  3. A notional individual who has, eats, or does an extremely large number of a specified thing, skewing statistical averages.

    “Average yard has 8 feral hogs” factoid actualy just statistical error. average yard has 0 hogs. hogs georg, who lives in rural america and whose yard has 30–50 hogs within 3–5 minutes of his small kids playing, is an outlier adn should not have been counted”

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