Peregrine

peregrine peregriné pérégrine English Etymology Saint's name from en la Peregrinus, from la peregrinus foreigner. Proper noun en rather _ rare en male Latin; and of mostly British usage. en 1985 Ruth Rendell The New Girlfriend: The Fen Hall 124, 127 Pringle didn't say anything about Roger always being called Hodge. He sensed that Mr. Liddon wouldn't call him Hodge any more than he would call him Pringle. He was right. / "Parents well, are they, Peregrine?" - - - / Hodge capered about, his thumbs in his ears and his hand flapping. "Tweet, tweet, mad bird. His master chains him up like a dog. Tweet, tweet, birdie!" / "I'd rather be a hunting falcon than Roger the lodger the sod," said Pringle.