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walking encyclopedia
walking encyclopedia
A very knowledgeable person, as in Ask Rob-he's a walking encyclopedia of military history. A similar expression, a walking dictionary, was used by George Chapman in his poem "Tears of Peace" (c. 1600).
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| HadiİYe | | - | Turkish |
| Vittoria | | - | Italian |
| Eirene | | - | Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek |
| Freja | | FRIE-ah (Danish, German), FRAY-ah (Swedish) | Danish, Swedish, German |
| Gaye | | [gei] | |
| Sergey | | syer-GYAY (Russian), seer-GYAY (Russian) | Russian, Bulgarian |