Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗name
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname transferred from the nickname.
* As an English surname, from Middle English body, probably a nickname for a corpulent person; and occupational surname from Middle English bode (“messenger”) + -y (diminutive ending). Equivalent to bode (“messenger, herald”) + -y. * As a French surname, variant of Bodin. * As a Hungarian surname Bódy, variant of Bódi, Bodi.
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