"Samwise Gamgee" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the character in the Lord of the Rings series.",
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      "form": "Samwise Gamgees",
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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "Samwise Gamgee (plural Samwise Gamgees)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2014, Dwight Longenecker, The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty, page 87=88:",
          "text": "I defend the pudgy Sancho Panzas, the rotund Ragueneaus, and the sentimental Samwise Gamgees of the world.",
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          "ref": "2023, Lawrence Davis, Dawn of Legacy, WildBlue Press:",
          "text": "Yes, thank you, Grove will be happy to learn about the doctorate.\" Watson was a fitting placeholder for Grove. Watson was the Samwise Gamgee of these stories anyway",
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          "ref": "2024, Patricia Santos Marcantonio, Misbehaving at Cactus Lanes, HarperCollins Publisher:",
          "text": "condolences. Later, they seemed to forget about me, for which I was grateful. I thought about going upstairs to watch Casablanca, which I'd recorded off TCM. But Ihad an obligation to Bob's death and the kids, so I bowed to duty as always. I was the Samwise Gamgee of Vegas.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A persistent and loyal friend who plays a supporting role."
      ],
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        "Lord of the Rings"
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  "word": "Samwise Gamgee"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the character in the Lord of the Rings series.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Samwise Gamgees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Tolkien's legendarium",
        "English terms derived from fiction",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Fictional characters"
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              77,
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          "ref": "2014, Dwight Longenecker, The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty, page 87=88:",
          "text": "I defend the pudgy Sancho Panzas, the rotund Ragueneaus, and the sentimental Samwise Gamgees of the world.",
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          "ref": "2023, Lawrence Davis, Dawn of Legacy, WildBlue Press:",
          "text": "Yes, thank you, Grove will be happy to learn about the doctorate.\" Watson was a fitting placeholder for Grove. Watson was the Samwise Gamgee of these stories anyway",
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          "ref": "2024, Patricia Santos Marcantonio, Misbehaving at Cactus Lanes, HarperCollins Publisher:",
          "text": "condolences. Later, they seemed to forget about me, for which I was grateful. I thought about going upstairs to watch Casablanca, which I'd recorded off TCM. But Ihad an obligation to Bob's death and the kids, so I bowed to duty as always. I was the Samwise Gamgee of Vegas.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A persistent and loyal friend who plays a supporting role."
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Lord of the Rings"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Samwise Gamgee"
}