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[Facts] What is in a Name?
I need to find the meaning of my friends name. Her name is Purdie. Can you help?
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Depending on your friend's age, her parents may have been fans of the teevee show *The New Avengers*, which attempted to pick up where the original *Avengers* left off. It was never as successful as the original show, although the blonde, leggy female character, Purdie (played by Joanna Lumley), went on to become a hit in *Ab Fab*)."Purdie" can be a nickname for "Perdita", which means "the lost". She was an aptly named character in Shakespeare's *The Winter's Tale*.Alternately, "Purdie" is Redneck for "pretty". Ask Pavlos about that, as he speaks Redneck fluently. :)-- Nanaea
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More on Purdie..."Purdie" is also an English surname, meaning "one given to blasphemy", from the French "par Dieu" ("by God").-- Nanaea
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looking for all people with last name purdie not purdy
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