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Bly

Bly

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A family name used as a last name and sometimes a place name
  • proper noun
translation icon : Bly
  • By Robert W. Bly. Robert W. Bly is the author of 75 books, including Secrets of a Freelance Writer.
  • Robert Bly
  • Bly is the author
  • Iron John by Bly

Examples

  • By Robert W. Bly. Robert W. Bly is the author of 75 books.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Robert Bly has argued that the form may well be as old as fable (199).

    Academic text (1999)

  • Do you like living at Bly?

    In a Dark Place (2006)

  • You tell me what's happening here at Bly!

    In a Dark Place (2006)

  • Richard Harris as Robert Bly.

    Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979)

  • And the young rookie, Jimmy Bly, sits back in third.

    Driven (2001)

  • Robert W. Bly is the author of more than 70 books, including Secrets of a Freelance Writer.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Bly spent decades in the hardscrabble vineyards of American poetry, and everyone knows it.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Nellie Bly, go ahead.

    Hell to Eternity (1960)

  • Have you read the poem by Bly about nature's beauty?

Surface Forms

Bly main

Etymology

Bly is a family and place name that probably comes from an old English word meaning 'pleasant' or 'cheerful' and is a short form of names like Blythe, the same root as the English word blithe. So the name Bly would have meant someone from a 'pleasant' place or a cheerful family.