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English word pygmalion comes from Phoenician 𐤐𐤌𐤉𐤉𐤕𐤍
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𐤐𐤌𐤉𐤉𐤕𐤍 (Phoenician)
Πυγμαλίων (Ancient Greek)
Pygmalion (English)
pygmalion (English)
One who acts as the legendary Greek sculptor Pygmalion (who was granted the wish of having life given to a sculpture of his which he loved a great deal), as in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in which he sometimes refers to his main character (Henry Higgins) as Pygmalion Higgins. Bloody (only in 'not pygmalion likely'), from the sensational, and then scandalous, line "not bloody likely" in [...]