Edna
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1. Edna - Noun
2. Edna - Proper noun
Meaning
A female given name from Hebrew.
A census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.
A city, the county seat of Jackson County, Texas, United States.
eDNA
(ecology) Initialism of environmental DNA.
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A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?
Edna wondered if they had all gone mad, to be talking and clamoring at that rate. She herself could think of nothing to say about Mexico or the Mexicans.
My disposals get taken away in the back of a taxi! (referring to the task in week 6, which centred around waste disposal and where Edna eventually fired).
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.