Davy
WordNet
noun
(1) English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
WiktionaryText
Proper noun
- A diminutive of the male given name David.
- derived from David.
Quotations
- ~1599 William Shakespeare: Henry the Fifth: Act IV, Scene I:
- Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate
- Upon Saint Davy's day.