Nickname for a poor or miserly person, from Italian scarso"scarce, scant".
Mavis
Gender:Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced:MAY-vis
Rating:71% based on 7 votes
From the name of the type of bird, also called the song thrush, derived from Old French mauvis, of uncertain origin. It was first used as a given name by the British author Marie Corelli, who used it for a character in her novel The Sorrows of Satan (1895).
Lyra
Gender:Feminine
Usage: Astronomy
Pronounced:LIE-rə(English)
Rating:52% based on 6 votes
The name of the constellation in the northern sky containing the star Vega. It is said to be shaped after the lyre of Orpheus. This is the name of the main character in the His Dark Materials series of books by Philip Pullman (beginning 1995).
Lars
Gender:Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, German