Holmes is an English-language surname with several origins.
Click here to see some of our 'fixies'. What's a fixie?. âFixie is short for âfixed gear,â which is a slang term for bicycles that have drivetrains with one gear that's fixed to the rear wheel so that you cannot coast and must continue pedaling whenever the bike's moving.
It was an apt word, for such instruments originally consisted of waxed silk or cotton rolled into a cylinder. Today, the French word bougie can also mean probe and sparkplug.. Also, the English word bougie can sometimes be used to refer to suppositories like those inserted into the anus to treat hemorrhoids.