Thackeray

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A surname.
  3. 3
    A community in western Saskatchewan, Canada.

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william makepeace thackeray

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"He is not so much a humorist as a satirist of the Thackeray type — unsparing in his denunciation of shams, affectations, and flimsy pretences of all kinds."

Etymology

Etymology 1

An English habitational surname from a place in Yorkshire, of Old Norse origin, from þak (“thatch, roof”) + rá (“nook”), therefore referring to a "place with thatching".

Etymology 2

Anglification of Marathi ठाकरे (ṭhākre).

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