civil serpent

n. a civil servant. You have no idea the kinds of things “civil serpents” have to put up with.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Elmira	el-MIR-ə	Literature
Ioann	-	Russian
Hein	HIEN	Dutch
Czcibor	-	Polish
Tina	TEE-nə (English), TEE-nah (Italian, Dutch)	English, Italian, Dutch, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian
Thelma	THEL-mə	English