Ollie
See also: ollie
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "gem" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., from Latin olivarius (“olive tree”) (from oliva (“olive”)), and from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Welsh.
Proper noun
Ollie
- A diminutive of the male given name Oliver.
- A diminutive of the female given names Olivia, Olive and Olwen.
- 1994 Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, Viking 1995, →ISBN, page 429:
- To my surprise and pleasure, it was Olwen that Esme chose to use when speaking of, and to, the baby - though she showed an unhappy tendency to shorten it to Ollie, in spite of my protests that this brought to mind not a stately princess, but the fat man in the Laurel and Hardy comedy series.
- 1994 Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, Viking 1995, →ISBN, page 429:
Dutch
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ollie
- A diminutive of the male given name Oliver
- A diminutive of the male given name Olivier
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