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Oates

oa·tes

UK/əʊts/ US/oʊts/ uncommon

noun

1.

English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705)

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2.

United States writer (born in 1938)

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Origin

* As an English and Irish surname of Norman origin, from Old Norman Ode, Odes, from the Germanic name Audo, shortened from compound names containing the element *aud (“wealth”). See also Ott. * As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Cuirc or Mac Cuirc and mistakenly associated with coirce (“oats”). See Quirk.

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