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Maverick

2 stages from English to English.

Today it means an unconventional or independent-minded person who doesn't follow the group
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Stage 1 of 2
Samuel Maverick
English · 1840s
"a rancher's name"
a Texas rancher who famously left his cattle unbranded, unlike his neighbors
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maverick
English · 1880s
"an unconventional, independent-minded person"
broadened from an unbranded stray calf to any independent-minded person
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