simon pure



simon pure

Absolutely genuine, quite authentic, as in That laboratory test was simon pure; none of the specimens was adulterated. This expression comes from the name of a character in a play, Susannah Centilivre's A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717), who is the victim of an impersonation but turns up in the end and proves that he is "the real Simon Pure."
See also: pure, simon

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Ima-Dutch, Ancient Germanic
HjalmarYAHL-mahr (Swedish)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
WilfordWIL-fərdEnglish
Paulinha-Portuguese
KnudKNOODDanish
RÉMyre-MEEFrench