Peregrine
Old-fashioned given name
Peregrine is a masculine given name with an old-fashioned, literary quality.
It appears in fiction—notably Peregrine Took in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings—more often than in contemporary use.
The nickname Pippin sometimes derives from it. (Lowercase peregrine means wandering or refers to the falcon.)
Took
Small, hole-dwelling humanoid
name
A cooking apple variety
- masculineMale in character
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- literaryOf written works
- fictionalNot real, invented
Tolkien · British · aristocratic · eccentric · quirky
hobbit
Small, hole-dwelling humanoid
Pippin
A cooking apple variety
- masculineMale in character
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- literaryOf written works
Tolkien · fictional · British · aristocratic · eccentric · quirky
movement/rootedness
Peregrinesedentary
Characterized by much sitting
rooted · stationary · settled · native · indigenous
- peregrine falconsSwift, diving hunting birds