Hoover

Meanings

Proper Noun

• (shared by several famous people including J. Edgar Hoover and Herbert Hoover).

Noun

• A vacuum cleaner of the Hoover brand, or irrespective of brand (Alternative of hoover).

Origin

• The surname is an anglicization of German Huber or Low German Hufer, originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small-scale farmer. The common noun and verb are taken from the brand name of one of the first vacuum cleaners (see hoover).