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Ollie

1. A unisex given name.
   1. A diminutive of the male given name Oliver, from French [in turn from Latin, in turn from Germanic].
   2. A female given name.
      1. A diminutive of the female given names Olivia or Olive, from Latin [in turn from Etruscan, in turn from Greek].
      2. A diminutive of the female given name Olwen, from Welsh.
      • 1994, Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, Viking, published 1995, →ISBN, page 429:

        To my surprise and pleasure, it was Olwen that Esme chose to use when speaking of, and to, the baby - though she showed an unhappy tendency to shorten it to Ollie, in spite of my protests that this brought to mind not a stately princess, but the fat man in the Laurel and Hardy comedy series.

2. (derogatory) A male orphan.

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