Dave
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Dave
- A diminutive of the male given name David, also used as a formal given name.
- 1994, Caroline Knapp, The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Counterpoint Press, published 2004, →ISBN, pages 169, 170:
- David, with its final "d", sounds finished and complete, whereas Dave just kind of hangs there in the air, indefinitely. - - - Worse, if your name is Dave, the only possible nickname is "Davey", which makes you sound like you should be wearing a coonskin cap.
- A surname from Gujarati from Gujarati દવે (dave, “(one who has studied) two Vedas”).
- (very rare) A female given name.
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male given name
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Gujarati surname
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Etymology edit
From English Dave, diminutive of David.
Proper noun edit
Dave
- a male given name
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Dave.