Percy

Etymology
Norman baronial surname from a place in Normandy (Percy-en-Auge), Perci, Late  Persiacum, from the Gallo-Roman personal name Persius.

Proper noun

 * , transferred use of the surname since the Middle Ages.
 * , transferred use of the surname since the Middle Ages.

Quotations

 * ~1597 William Shakespeare: First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Act V, Scene IV:
 * Hotspur. My name is Harry Percy.
 * Prince. Why, then, I see / A very valiant rebel of that name. / I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, / To share with me in glory any more.
 * 2008 Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture, Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-21528-7, pages 198 - 199:
 * I have written again to ask if I may visit there sometime soon, and talk to the administrator, who it turns out is an old acquaintance, a man called Percival Quinn, I think the only Percy I have heard of in the present era, let alone met.

Anagrams

 * crepy, crêpy

Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from  in the nineteenth century, by folk etymology associated with Per ( =Peter).

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