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Standish

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Standish ♂ Transferred use of the English surname, in origin a local name from a place in Lancashire named with the Old English elements stān ‘stone’ + edisc ‘pasture’. This was borne most famously by Miles Standish (?1584–1656), soldier, military leader, and law-enforcement officer of the Pilgrim Fathers, the subject of a historically inaccurate poem by Longfellow.

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Standish

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Standish Wigan. Stanesdis 1178. ‘Stony pasture or enclosure’. OE stān + edisc.

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standish

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

standish (arch.) stand for writing materials. XV. of unkn. orig.; presumably based on STAND.

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Standish

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Standish •bish, dish, fish, Frisch, Gish, knish, pish, squish, swish, wish •clayish, greyish (US grayish) •puppyish • babyish •dandyish, sandyish •toadyish • fogeyish • monkeyish •sissyish • Gypsyish • prettyish •heavyish • dryish •lowish, slowish •sallowish • yellowish • narrowish •boyish • tomboyish •bluish, Jewish, newish, shrewish •Pollyannaish • prima donna-ish •nebbish •slobbish, snobbish, yobbish •rubbish • furbish •baddish, caddish, faddish, kaddish, laddish, radish, saddish •blandish, brandish, outlandish, Standish •Cavendish • Netherlandish •horseradish • hardish • reddish •Wendish • old-maidish • Swedish •fiendish • Yiddish • widish •childish, mildish, wildish •cloddish, oddish •baldish • roundish •modish, toadish •coldish, oldish •prudish • goodish • Kurdish

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