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Rudolph
Gender:
Masculine
Usage:
English
Pronounced:
ROO-dahlf
(
American English
)
ROO-dawlf
(
British English
)
Personal remark:
Guilty pleasure, former #1
English form of
Rudolf
, imported from Germany in the 19th century. Robert L. May used it in 1939 for his Christmas character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
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