Kermit

//ˈkɜːmɪt// name

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  1. 1
    A male given name from Manx. US
  2. 2
    The puppet Kermit the Frog, host of The Muppet Show and a frequent character in Sesame Street, originally performed by creator Jim Henson.
  3. 3
    An asynchronous file transfer protocol, often used for communication between different types of minicomputer or mainframe.
  4. 4
    A city, the county seat of Winkler County, Texas, named after Kermit Roosevelt.
  5. 5
    A town in Mingo County, West Virginia, named after Kermit Roosevelt.

Example

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"Jordan Peterson talks like Kermit the Frog."

Etymology

Variant of English and Manx Kermode, cognate with Irish Mac Diarmata and Scots Gaelic McDiarmid (“son of Dermot”). Popularized in the US by the naming of Kermit Roosevelt (after a Manx ancestor). The computing sense is named after the Sesame Street character, but later provided with a backronym ("KL10 Error-Free Reciprocal Microprocessor Interchange over TTY").

Related phrases

Kermit the Frogcounty seatwest virginiawinkler county

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