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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Mugilidae — a large group of mullets.
  • proper noun A female given name, diminutive of Eliza and Elizabeth.

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Examples

  • Liza is seldom wrong, especially about matters of art and pop culture.

    LITTLE MISS NO NAME (correction to earlier post) Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Liza, is Alice Austen one of the women featured in JEB's slide show about Lesbian photographers?

    HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, LIZA! Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Mis '' Liza is only here on a visit – this is your mistress.

    Daisy 1868

  • 'Liza' -- he couldn't go on, and stuttered in his shyness -- 'Liza,

    Liza of Lambeth 1919

  • Mm, I think more instances of internet drive-by moming will involve calling Liza adorable and/or a big girl.

    Everything is Different Now | Live Granades 2010

  • So when I get home—my father and Ben have gone to another ball game—I take the lasagna out of the freezer and call Liza.

    The Pursuit of Happiness Tara Altebrando 2006

  • Somehow they had got into the way of calling Liza the servants.

    Peter Pan 1898

  • Somehow they had got into the way of calling Liza the servants.

    Peter and Wendy F. D. [Illustrator] Bedford 1898

  • From the conversation Korolyov learned that the patient was Madame Lyalikov's only daughter and heiress, a girl of twenty, called Liza; she had been ill for a long time, and had consulted various doctors, and the previous night she had suffered till morning from such violent palpitations of the heart, that no one in the house had slept, and they had been afraid she might die.

    The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • "I do get so sick of that girl, mambying and jambying about that family; calling Liza and her husband 'Ma and Pa,' I haven't a bit of faith in her."

    Trial and Triumph Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1868

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