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Mallory

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈmæləɹi//

An English surname from Old French.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An English surname from Old French.

  2. 2

    A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

  3. 3

    The malicious party in examples of threat scenarios. See Alice and Bob.

  4. 4

    A place in the United States: A township in Clayton County, Iowa.

  5. 5

    A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Polk County, Minnesota.

  6. 6

    A place in the United States: A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.

Etymology

From an Anglo-Norman nickname for an unfortunate person, from Old French maleure, malheure (“unhappy, unlucky”) (whence French malheur), from mal (“bad”) + eur (“fortune”).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).