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If anyone knows what the Christian name Dolge means, please inform me. It comes from an exerpt in chapter 15 of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens:
"Now, Joe kept a journeyman at weekly wages whose name was Orlick. He pretended that his christian name was Dolge - a clear impossibility - but he was a fellow of that obstinate disposition that I believe him to have been the prey of no delusion in this particular, but wilfully to have imposed that name upon the village as an affront to its understanding."
"Now, Joe kept a journeyman at weekly wages whose name was Orlick. He pretended that his christian name was Dolge - a clear impossibility - but he was a fellow of that obstinate disposition that I believe him to have been the prey of no delusion in this particular, but wilfully to have imposed that name upon the village as an affront to its understanding."
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I was looking for some info on Biddy and ran across your question..someone in my class said that Dolge translates to something like "Duke" in, I believe German, I can't remember the language he said. This would make some sense b/c of pip's reaction to it in the following lines.
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Dolge
Does anyone recognize Dolge?
Does anyone recognize Dolge?
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