'aptronym' in Understanding Jennifer Egan | Bookmarker

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a person's name that is regarded as amusingly appropriate to their occupation

Dickens is one such nineteenth-century figure who particularly toys with aptronyms, such as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1843).

—p.86 A Visit from the Goon Squad (78) by Alexander Moran

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