Hummer
A surname from German
Proper noun
- A surname from German
Origin
From the German and West Frisian surname, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hugô, *hugiz (“mind”) + *mērijaz (“famous”). Related to Hugh and the first element of Merovingian.
Forms
Noun
- A brand of sport utility vehicles sold by General Motors, and by extension, any large similar vehicle.
- Hummers are a somewhat unusual sight in New York. The kinds of people who like them as status symbols often don’t like the city’s narrow, messy street configurations, which can be hard for bulky vehicles to manage. -...
- The HMMWV or Humvee, a US Army vehicle which replaced the Jeep.
- "The vehicle is called the 'Hummer,' a contrived abbreviation of its official designation, 'High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle.'" - 1985, Andy Rooney, Pieces of my Mind, →ISBN, page 38:
- "The Hummer, a clumsy, elongated vehicle the Army intended as a replacement for the hardy Jeep, developed so many problems it became known as the Bummer." - 1985, James Coates, Michael Kilian, Heavy Losses: The...
- "He made a point of not taking federal money for the district -- though by 1986 he was bragging about landing an Army contract to build the Hummer vehicle for a South Bend company." - 1987, Michael Barone, Grant...
Origin
Etymology tree English Humvee English -er English Hummer From Humvee + -er.