Primrose

See also: primrose

English

Etymology

The surname derives from a place name in Fife, Scotland, from Brythonic words meaning "tree" + "moor", changed by folk etymology because of phonetic resemblance to primrose. The given name is one of the 19th-century flower names.

Proper noun

Primrose

1. A habitational surname.
2. (rare, chiefly Britain) A female given name from English.
   • 1929, Joyce Lankester Brisley, chapter 8, in More of Milly-Molly-Mandy:

     Mother said, "How do you like Primrose? It sounds fresh and pretty." Milly-Molly-Mandy thought it sounded a very nice name. - - - And then she decided, as the baby had come in the spring-time, it had better be Primrose.

Anagrams

• Primeros, promiser