Corey
See also: corey
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- Rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Proper noun edit
Corey
- An English surname from Old Norse from the Old Norse given name Kóri, itself perhaps from Old Irish Cuire, from cuire (“troop, host, company”), from Proto-Celtic *koryos (“army, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”).
- A surname from Irish, a variant anglicization of Ó Comhraidhe (Curry).
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 1968 October 17, Jet, volume 35, number 2, page 61:
- Miss Carroll's popularity doesn't end with her on-screen performances in the show which co-stars young Marc Copage as her precocious six-year-old son, Corey Baker, whose father Capt. Baker was killed in Vietnam.
- (rare) A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Cori.
- 1996, Barbara Bretton, Guilty Pleasures, Mira Books, →ISBN, page 156:
- "I'm Millicent Banning and —" she pushed Corey forward "— this is my daughter Catherine, but we all call her Corey."