Benvoʹlio.

Nephew to Montague, a testy, litigious gentleman, who would “quarrel with a man that had a hair more or a hair less in his beard than he had.” Mercutio says to him, “Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun.” (Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, iii. 1.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Bengal Tigers
Bengalese
Bengodi
Benicia Boy
Benjamin
Benjamin
Benjamin’s Mess
Bennaskar
Benshie, Benshee
Bent
Benvolio
Beppo
Berchta [the white lady]
Bereans
Berecynthian Hero
Berengarians
Berenice
Berg Folk
Bergæan (A)
Bergelmir
Berger

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Benvolio