Meet the people behind everyday words
Ever heard of Samuel Maverick or Charles Boycott? Maybe not, but chances are, you have used a couple of their coinages.
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We can all think of some famous eponyms, but many words we use every day are eponyms and we don’t even know it.
Here are some of those more obscure eponyms. (Definitions are from Wordnik.com.)
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