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Kermit

Syllables: Ker·mitUK/ˈkɜːmɪt/US/ˈkɝmɪt/

Kermit proper noun: a male given name from Manx.

kermit: a male given name from Manx
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Proper noun

Kermit

  1. (US) A male given name from Manx.
  2. The puppet Kermit the Frog, host of The Muppet Show and a frequent character in Sesame Street, originally performed by creator Jim Henson.
  3. An asynchronous file transfer protocol, often used for communication between different types of minicomputer or mainframe.
  4. A city, the county seat of Winkler County, Texas, named after Kermit Roosevelt.
  5. A town in Mingo County, West Virginia, named after Kermit Roosevelt.

Origin of Kermit

Variant of English and Manx Kermode, cognate with Irish Mac Diarmata and Scots Gaelic McDiarmid (“son of Dermot”). Popularized in the US by the naming of Kermit Roosevelt (after a Manx ancestor). The computing sense is named after the Sesame Street character, but later provided with a backronym ("KL10 Error-Free Reciprocal Microprocessor Interchange over TTY").

Words formed from Kermit

Words that rhyme with Kermit

Questions about Kermit

What does Kermit mean?
Kermit means a male given name from Manx.
What part of speech is Kermit?
Kermit is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Kermit?
Kermit is pronounced /ˈkɜːmɪt/ (UK).

Words near Kermit in the dictionary

  1. kermesse
  2. kermesses
  3. kermi
  4. kermis
  5. kermises
  6. Kermit
  7. Kermit the Frog
  8. kermode
  9. Kermode bear
  10. Kermode bears
  11. kermodes

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