Etymology

Falstaff

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Today it means: A fat and jolly knight. Full definition →

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The story

From the name of a character invented by William Shakespeare for his Henry IV plays, and who also appeared in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.