nameling
nounEtymology From name + -ling.
- Eveline Hill, the protagonist of the Dubliners story "Eveline," for example, successfully extricates herself from the confines of her "Eve" name since, like her nameling in the Garden of Eden who was tempted by promises of knowledge, Eveline, too, is tempted: […]1994, Claire A. Culleton, Names and Naming in Joyce:
- […] namelings, people having the same name when […]2014, Barbara Ann Kipfer, 14,000 Things to Be Happy About: