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sigmund

/ˈsɪɡmənd/

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What does sigmund mean?

proper noun

  1. (humorous) Term of address for a person who appears to be dispensing psychoanalysis.

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/ˈsɪɡmənd/

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To Sigmund Bergmann, who had worked previously with Edison on telephone apparatus and phonographs, and was already making Edison specialties in a small way in a loft on Wooster Street, New York, was assigned the task of constructing sockets, fixtures, meters, safety fuses, and numerous other details.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820
Sigmund flew at him and rent him so that he fell, for he had bitten through his throat. That day they could not leave their wolf-forms. Sigmund laid him on his back and bare him home to the hall, and sat beside him, and said, ‘Deuce take the wolf-forms!”’—Völsung Saga, c. 8.
S. (Sabine) Baring-GouldThe Book of Were-WolvesProject Gutenberg ebook #5324