Definitions

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  • proper noun A surname.
  • proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.

Etymologies

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Scottish habitational surname of uncertain meaning. Probably of Pictish or Gaelic origin. Some of the suggestions that have been advanced as to the meaning of the name Brodie are:

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Examples

  • Jean Brodie is the devastatingly popular schoolteacher who dominates the junior pupils of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh in the 1930s.

    The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark 2004

  • Jean Brodie is the devastatingly popular schoolteacher who dominates the junior pupils of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh in the 1930s.

    The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark 2004

  • Miss Brodie is convinced that she is in her prime, but perhaps, the book suggests, we talk about being in our prime only when we are not in fact in it.

    The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark 2004

  • Miss Brodie is convinced that she is in her prime, but perhaps, the book suggests, we talk about being in our prime only when we are not in fact in it.

    The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark 2004

  • As played by Maggie Smith, prim Miss Jean Brodie is now Professor McGonagall, who can turn herself into a cat at will, but is apparently powerless against a face that droops like a clump of wet Bounty towels.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2001

  • I think The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is over rated, and suspect, given an early struggle with Humbolt’s Gift, that the same might be the case with Bellow.

    Another ‘best of’ book list… 2008

  • I think The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is over rated, and suspect, given an early struggle with Humbolt’s Gift, that the same might be the case with Bellow.

    2008 December | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2008

  • I think The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is over rated, and suspect, given an early struggle with Humbolt’s Gift, that the same might be the case with Bellow.

    2008 December 23 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2008

  • Her sixth novel, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1961), had catapulted her into the ranks of celebrity authorship, and the New Yorker, which had printed "Brodie" in a single issue, gave her an office; from her 18th-floor window she could see the flashing neon sign of the Time/Life building at Rockefeller Center.

    "Muriel Spark: The Biography" by Martin Stannard, reviewed by Elaine Showalter 2010

  • Her sixth novel, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1961), had catapulted her into the ranks of celebrity authorship, and the New Yorker, which had printed "Brodie" in a single issue, gave her an office; from her 18th-floor window she could see the flashing neon sign of the Time/Life building at Rockefeller Center.

    "Muriel Spark: The Biography" by Martin Stannard, reviewed by Elaine Showalter Elaine Showalter 2010

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