Etymology

Quotations

• By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir

  To Roger, Earl of March, who was the son

  Of Edmund Mortimer.

• 1985 Ruth Rendell: The New Girlfriend: The Fen Hall: page 124, 127:

  Pringle didn't say anything about Roger always being called Hodge. He sensed that Mr. Liddon wouldn't call him Hodge any more than he would call him Pringle. He was right.

  "Parents well, are they, Peregrine?" - - -

  Hodge capered about, his thumbs in his ears and his hand flapping. "Tweet, tweet, mad bird. His master chains him up like a dog. Tweet, tweet, birdie!"

  "I'd rather be a hunting falcon than Roger the lodger the sod," said Pringle.

Proper noun

1. , cognate to English Roger.

Proper noun

1. , the English and French equivalent of Roar.

Proper noun

1. borrowed from English in the 19th century.