kelly
IPA: kˈɛɫi
Root Word: Kelly
noun
- A surname from Irish, Anglicised from the Irish Ó Ceallaigh.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, popular from the 1960s to the 1990s.
- A placename
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Nemaha County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Christian County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana.
- A census-designated place in Bladen County, North Carolina.
- A township in Union County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
- A town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
- An unincorporated community in Clearfield, Juneau County, Wisconsin.
- A census-designated place in Teton County, Wyoming.
- A small village and civil parish (without a council) in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX3981).
- A locality on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
- A square or hexagonal pipe that is turned in order to rotate the rotary table of a drilling rig.
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Examples of "kelly" in Sentences
- Kelly and Stober scoff at the notion.
- She is the owner of the 'Kelly Deli'.
- He is the son of the cartoonist Charles E. Kelly.
- Kelly fights Dunne in the sporting event of the year.
- Kelly was a gifted pugilist, and word of the battle quickly spread.
- Kelly was the object of the tabloids and gossip throughout her life.
- The series premiered on the centenary of the day that Kelly was hanged.
- Larissa Kelly is at least as deserving as the lesser of those luminaries.
- He is essentially the exact opposite of the impulsive, talkative Chet Kelly.
- His successor was Michael Kelly, later coadjutor to the Archbishop of Sydney.
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