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Billy Wigglestick

name

Etymology

From Billy as a diminutive of William, and wiggle + stick as a reinterpretation of Shakespeare as shake + spear.

  1. derived from *(s)teyg-✻ — “to pierce, prick, be sharp”
  2. inherited from *stikkô✻
  3. inherited from *stikkō✻
  4. inherited from sticca
  5. inherited from stikke
  6. compounded as billy wigglestick — “wiggle + stick”

Definitions

  1. William Shakespeare.

    • Shakespeare chaired the meeting and tabled the motion where they decided to turn nouns into verbs. You dont like it? Take it up with Billy Wigglestick.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA