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Snoopy is a loyal, imaginative, and good-natured beagle who is prone to imagining fantasy lives, including being an author, a college student known as "Joe Cool", an attorney, and a World War I flying ace. He is perhaps best known in this last persona, wearing an aviator's helmet and goggles and a scarf while carrying a swagger stick (like a ...
Gender. Male. The Pink Panther is a fictional animated character who appears in the opening and/or closing credit sequences of every film in The Pink Panther series except for A Shot in the Dark and Inspector Clouseau. [ 1] In the storyline of the original film, the "Pink Panther" is the name of a valuable pink diamond named for a flaw that ...
Leslie is a surname and given name, derived from the name of Clan Leslie. The name may also be spelled Lesley. The name derives from a placename in Aberdeenshire, [1] perhaps an anglicisation of an originally Gaelic leas celyn "holly-garden". [2] Leslie is also frequently used as an anglicization of the male name Ladislaus, or its variant László.
The overall accepted origin for the female name Brenda is the Old Nordic male name Brandr meaning both torch and sword: evidently the male name Brandr took root in areas of the British Isles under Nordic dominance and through being heard as '"Brenda" was eventually adopted as a female name. [1]
Chloe (/ ˈ k l oʊ i /; [1] Greek: Χλόη [note 1]), also spelled Chloë, Chlöe, or Chloé, is a feminine name meaning "blooming" or "fertility" in Greek.The name ultimately derives, through Greek, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰelh₃-, which relates to the colors yellow and green.
In the 1940s, Americans started using the Ashley for girls and was more common for girls starting in 1964. [7] Ashley was considered a surname style name at the time. [8] In the 1980s the name had a rise in popularity attributed to the female soap opera character Ashley Abbott who emerged on the still-running TV series The Young and the Restless in 1982. [9]
Harold (given name) Harold is an English personal name. The modern name Harold ultimately derives from the Proto-Germanic *harja-waldaz, meaning 'military-power' or 'army-ruler'. The name entered Modern English via the Old English from Hereweald, which retained the same meaning and was prevalent in Anglo-Saxon England.
Roxanne (given name) ”Roxanne” is a feminine given name. It is derived from the Greek name Rhōxanē (Latinised to Roxana), used for Roxana, one of Cambyses's wifes, the daughter of Idérnēs, a sister of one sister of king Mithridates VI, and the wife of Alexander the Great. The name originates from the Old Iranian Raṷxšnā-, meaning ...