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River
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river
English
<dab!>
Etymology
From en river.
Proper noun
~ s
en unisex.
2002 December 13, Joss Whedon, Firefly, season 1, episode 14, Objects in Space:
Wash: Little River gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next?
Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up.
Wash: I hope she does the soup thing, it's always a hoot and we don't all die from it.
2011 April 30, Steven Moffat, Doctor Who, series 6, episode 2, Day of the Moon:
The Doctor: Oh, this is my friend River. Nice hair, clever, and has her own gun. And unlike me, she really doesn't mind shooting people. I shouldn't like that. Kinda do, a bit.
en 2017 Carrie Keagan; Dibs Baer Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches Macmillan 9781250026200 131 Apparently, early in the day, a journalist had decided to bring up his brother River Phoenix's death in his interview, which threw him off and trainwrecked the day for everyone, including me.
en rare en.
A place name:
en suburban village/and/cpar in dist/Dover co/Kent cc/England OS grid ref TR2943. Parish map (Kent)
en hamlet par/Tillington dist/Chichester co/West Sussex co/England OS grid ref SU9322.
en twp co/Red Lake County s/Minnesota c/USA.
Derived terms
en Rayne Riverton
See also
en Rivers
References
en female given names male given names unisex given names