English Explanatory Dictionary

Mayhem Parva

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The archetypical sleepy English village that is the setting for many works of detective fiction.

Word forms

Mayhem Parva

Etymology

Coined by Colin Watson with reference to the works of Agatha Christie. Compare place names such as Glen Parva, Ashby Parva, etc. "Parva" was derived from Latin parvus (“small, insignificant”), so the name can literally mean "little chaos".

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