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- DictionaryMan Fri·day/mæn ˈfraɪˌdeɪ/
noun
- 1. a male helper or follower.
Apr 11, 2019 · New York, Jan. 28.— (By The Associated Press.)—A former East side girl Friday became a member of a Sardinian noble family that traces its descent back to the Crusades. Mrs. Walter Goldbeck, widow of the portrait painter, married Paul Mance De Mores, Count of Vallombrosa.
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Man Friday Describes a loyal and devoted servant or odd-job man and dates in this sense from the early 19th century. The origin of course is the man that Robinson Crusoe finds on his island in the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Etymology. Friday, servant in Robinson Crusoe (1719), novel by Daniel Defoe. First Known Use. circa 1809, in the meaning defined above. Time Traveler. The first known use of man Friday was circa 1809. See more words from the same year.
Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe 's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe and its sequel The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe names the man Friday, with whom he cannot at first communicate, because they first meet on that day.
Where does the phrase “Man Friday” come from? The origin of the phrase "Man Friday" can be traced back to the novel 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe, published in 1719. In the story, Robinson Crusoe, a shipwrecked sailor, encounters a native man whom he names Friday.
Aug 23, 2024 · From man (“adult male servant”) + Friday, coined by the English writer Daniel Defoe (c. 1660 – 1731) in his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719) as the name of the protagonist Crusoe’s companion and servant; he is rescued by Crusoe from cannibal captives on a Friday. [1]
The earliest known use of the noun man Friday is in the 1800s. OED's earliest evidence for man Friday is from before 1809, in the writing of R. M. Wilson. From a proper name, combined with an English element.
