Falk

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The razorbill. UK, archaic, dialectal
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable

    "They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to."

  2. 2
    A ghost town and former logging settlement in Humboldt County, California, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A township in Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States. countable, uncountable

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"They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to."

Etymology

* As a German, Jewish and Scandinavian/North Germanic surname, from the nouns Falke, Yiddish פֿאַלקאַן (falkan), falk (“falcon”). Compare Valk. * As an English surname, variant of Faulks.

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