Elmer

[ el-mer ]

noun

1. a male given name: from Old English words meaning “noble” and “famous.”

Example Sentences

The psychologists who served there included two officers, James Elmer Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen.

From The Daily Beast

I was driving some back roads near Elmer, N.J., when I came on a kid carrying a dead dog.

From The Daily Beast

Check out this 2003 clip in which this soft-spoken Jewish pischer was transformed into Elmer Gantry.

From The Daily Beast

“You win by fighting—and yeah, by punishing those who break ranks in the face of the enemy,” Elmer tells a protégé.

From The Daily Beast

At first Lear thought of making a feature film satirizing Swaggart and his ilk—sort of an updated Elmer Gantry.

From The Daily Beast

Elmer Spiker interrupted to inquire whether the turtles I had seen were "black-legs, red-legs, or yaller-legs."

From Project Gutenberg

Elmer Spiker, mine host of the inn, was huddled close to the stove, and was reading by the light of a lamp.

From Project Gutenberg

Having evolved this sage remark, Elmer twisted back to his old position and raised the paper.

From Project Gutenberg

The suggestion seemed a likely one, so I interrupted the flow of Elmer's troubled thoughts to say good-night, and went out.

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This was too direct a slap at Elmer Spiker to pass unnoticed; Elmer was too old an arguer to use any ponderous weapon in return.

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