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Maybel

Maybel proper noun: a female given name from Latin.

Proper noun

Maybel

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    • It's an awkward name: Isamay, pronounced Is-a-may. Isa is my paternal grandmother's name (shortened from Isabel) and May my maternal grandmother's (it comes, somehow, from Margaret). The amalgamation is, as you see, strictly alphabetical. Life, I feel, would have been much easier if they had chosen...2010, Margaret Forster, Isa & May, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 5

Origin of Maybel

A nonstandard spelling of Mabel.

Questions about Maybel

What does Maybel mean?
Maybel means a female given name from Latin.
What part of speech is Maybel?
Maybel is a proper noun.

Words near Maybel in the dictionary

  1. maybe type
  2. maybe types
  3. Maybee
  4. Maybees
  5. maybeish
  6. Maybel
  7. Maybelle
  8. maybeness
  9. Mayberry
  10. Mayberry Machiavelli
  11. Mayberry Machiavellis

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