Moriarty
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Etymology edit
From Irish Ó Muircheartaigh (“descendant of Muircheartach”), a name from muir (“sea”) + ceardaí (“craftsman”).
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Proper noun edit
Moriarty
- A surname from Irish.
- Professor James Moriarty, fictional archenemy and nemesis of Sherlock Holmes; by extension any such archenemy or nemesis.
- 1997, Martha Nochimson, The passion of David Lynch: wild at heart in Hollywood:
- The town of Twin peaks, suddenly not energised by its mammary setting, is narrated as a large chess board on which the action is completely defined by the competing logic of Dale Cooper and his Moriarty-like nemesis, Windom Earle.
- A city in Torrance County, New Mexico, United States.
- A locality in Latrobe council area, Tasmania, Australia.