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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname from German or Middle English or transferred from the nickname.
Two main origins: * English surname from Middle English bis (“dark, murky, gray”), an adjective related to French bis (“beige”) and Italian bigio (“ash gray, dun”). * Borrowed from German Biss (“bite”), a nickname for a cutting, sarcastic person.
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