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OP, can you please

[(Anonymous)]

Explain what the naming convention for Millicent Bulstrode is?

DA

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but Millicent is usually said to come from the words "work/labor" and "strength". So something like "strong/active work" or "strong in labor"?

I think the character is described as kind of brutish and strong, but it's been many years since I read the books.

Re: OP, can you please

[(Anonymous)]

DA She's a big dumb tough girl so I think JKR is leaning on "Bulldyke" there.

Re: OP, can you please

[(Anonymous)]

Not sure if that's the word she would have thought of first. I think "bulldog" is more likely.

Re: OP, can you please

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT It may have been, but there's a long tradition of this particular mean butch girl or woman in school stories, see Miss Trunchdyke in Matilda for another example.

Re: OP, can you please

[(Anonymous)]

“Trunchdyke”...

Re: OP, can you please

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP and I think OP is reaching. I always saw a "meaning" in Millicent Bulstrode, but it's not any especially clever, it's not deeper than that Millicent is a generic "ugly name" (in the same vein as Agatha, Ethel, Mildred, etc) and Millicent Bulstrode is ugly (both in looks and personality).