Algernon
Proper noun
Meaning
Algernon
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Anagrams
Examples
Act III ;Morning-Room at the Manor House, Woolton Arriving in pursuit of her daughter, Lady Bracknell is astonished to be told that Algernon and Cecily are engaged.
Algernon confesses a similar deception: he pretends to have an invalid friend named Bunbury in the country, whom he can "visit" whenever he wishes to avoid an unwelcome social obligation.
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Algernon arrives, pretending to be Ernest Worthing, and soon charms Cecily.
Algernon, however, refuses his consent until Ernest explains why his cigarette case bears the inscription, "From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack."
Algernon too is pursued by a group of creditors in the opening scene.