Kermit

English

Etymology

Variant of English and Manx Kermode, cognate with Irish Mac Diarmata (“son of Dermot”). Popularised in the US by the naming of Kermit Roosevelt (after a Manx ancestor).

Computing sense named after the Sesame Street character, but later provided with a backronym ("KL10 Error-Free Reciprocal Microprocessor Interchange over TTY").

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Proper noun

Kermit

A cat playing with Kermit the Frog.
  1. (chiefly US) A male given name from Manx.
  2. The puppet Kermit the Frog, host of The Muppet Show and a frequent character in Sesame Street, originally performed by creator Jim Henson.
  3. (computing) An asynchronous file transfer protocol, often used for communication between different types of minicomputer or mainframe.
  4. A city, the county seat of Winkler County, Texas, named after Kermit Roosevelt.
  5. A town in West Virginia, named after Kermit Roosevelt.

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