Former Congressman John Kasich (R-OH) is raising the bar for Republicans trying to latch onto the Tea Party movement this year. Kasich, now running for governor of Ohio in a dead heat with incumbent Ted Strickland (D), told a crowd yesterday he was a tea partier before it was cool.
Short form of PHILIP and various other names beginning with Phil, often a Greek element meaning friend, dear, beloved. Expand Name Links.
What's interesting is that a philander was originally used to describe a woman. The word means 'loving of men' (philo- and á¼Î½Î®Ï). In renaissance poems and plays, the word was misundertood to mean 'a loving man', and was used as a name, Philander, Filandro, etc, for desirable young rakes.