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Purdy

Purdy

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A family name some people have
  • proper noun
  • /ˈpɜrdi/
: Purdy
  • You are cordially invited to celebrate the wedding of Sophie Purdy and Craig Meili.

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Examples

  • The bride's mother, Eve Purdy, baked pecan cookies that out-of-town guests received in their hotel rooms.

  • What is Charles Purdy doing here?

    BlackBerry (2023)

  • The funny part is that even then, most of the people did not understand what the Purdy shuffle was about.

  • Some girl named Delores Purdy.

    In the Heat of the Night (1967)

  • Sam Purdy was a Boulder police detective and a good friend.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Ken W. Purdy, Editor, True Magazine.

    UFOs: The Secret History (2010)

  • If Delores Purdy hadn't come into your office, I never would have seen the truth.

    In the Heat of the Night (1967)

  • I'm Charles Purdy.

    BlackBerry (2023)

  • As Jedediah Purdy argues, "no one really knows what a democracy on the scale of Anthropocene challenges ... would look like."

    Academic text (2018)

  • Some girl named Delores Purdy.

Surface Forms

Purdy main

Etymology

Purdy as a surname is an English family name. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the word 'pretty', which some people say as 'purdy', so it feels like a friendly last name.