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  • proper noun A patronymic surname.

Etymologies

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From Hodge from the given name Roger + patronymic suffix -s.

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Examples

  • And I looked at the numbers, I looked at the RBI, and I said: 'Yes, Gil Hodges is a Hall of Famer.'

    USATODAY.com - Verdict still out on vets heading to Cooperstown 2005

  • Hodges is a strong-legged kicker with excellent directional ability.

    USATODAY.com 2005

  • "There's a lot of great players out there, but I've always felt this shrine (the Hall of Fame) should be for a select few," said former major leaguer Mike Epstein, who played for Hodges on the Washington Senators but doesn't think that Hodges is a slam-dunk choice for Cooperstown.

    USATODAY.com - Verdict still out on vets heading to Cooperstown 2005

  • Cook's Oceanic voyages offered a paradigm and iconographyas in Hodges 'depiction of Cook's welcome to the Pacific (see fig. 1) for the heroine's cross-cultural encounter and the quest for a lost Eden.

    Savage Boundaries 2002

  • "Hodges is the heart and soul of our team," Simms said.

    NCAA Football - Texas vs. Oregon 2000

  • I took one look down the fairway and toward Lake Pat Cleburne and said the word Hodges said he has heard at least once on every tour he has given.

    unknown title 2009

  • « Official Blog of Samira Armin Hodges: The Big Bang Theory/4 New International Iron Man 2 Posters: HeyUGuys – UK Movie Blog »

    Planet-x.com.au » Eberwhite Reads!: Star wars the clone wars (animated book) 2010

  • Roneeka Hodges was the only offensive weapon for Florida State

    USATODAY.com 2004

  • He heard a great noise of water slashed in bucketsful against a wall, and this was followed by a sort of gurgling that seemed to him to come from a human throat; this latter, however, was almost drowned in an exulting chuckle of several persons, among whom he caught the tones of a turnkey called Hodges and of the governor himself.

    It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849

  • St George great Steve Morris, at the time, labelled Hodges a

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2012

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