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Ruby

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English

Etymology

The female name derives from ruby in the 19th century.

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Proper noun

Ruby

  1. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 376: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "female" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E..
    • 1992 Karen Kijewski, Kat's Cradle, page 76:
      And those are her two daughters, Opal and Ruby. Her husband, Joshua, named them. He said they were to be the jewels of his old age. She would never have thought of names like that. There wasn't an ounce of sentiment in her body.
  2. (rare) Lua error in Module:names at line 636: Parameter 1 is required.
  3. (rare) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 376: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "male" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E..
  4. (computer languages) A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.
  5. A city in Alaska.
  6. A ghost town in Arizona
  7. A town in South Carolina.
  8. A town in Wisconsin.
  9. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.

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Noun

Ruby

  1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A curry, short for Ruby Murray.
    We're going down the Indian for a Ruby - wanna join us?

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