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your good name

your good name phrase: your name.

Phrase

your good name

  1. (South-Asia, UK, also, archaic, respectful) Your name.
    • ‘Society ought to be proud of such men as you, Mr. – what is your good name, sir?’ – ‘Phiggins, at your service.’1838, Bentley's Miscellany: Proceedings of the Wide Awake Club, page 361
    • 'That must be your nick name. But what's your good name ?' 'I ain't get any bad name only one name Goofy.' She laughs. 'It's a funny name for a man.'1972, Narinder Chadha, The drop out

Origin of your good name

In modern South Asian English, likely calque of Bengali ভালো নাম (bhalō nam), Hindi शुभ नाम (śubh nām, literally “good name”), and similar collocations in other Indian languages. Good has a sense similar to honourable, as in older English phrases such as “good sir” or “your good wife”.

Questions about your good name

What does your good name mean?
Your good name means your name.
What part of speech is your good name?
Your good name is a phrase.

Words near your good name in the dictionary

  1. Your Dukeness
  2. Your Excellencies
  3. Your Excellency
  4. your face, your fate
  5. your girl
  6. your good name
  7. your good self
  8. your good selves
  9. your goodself
  10. your goodselves
  11. your grace

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