nancy

• Nancy

From Nancy, pet form of the female given names Agnes and Anne, under influence from earlier nan (“serving girl, maid; male homosexual”), itself from Nan, another pet form of the same names. Compare Mary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnænsi/

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• Rhymes: -ænsi
• Hyphenation: nan‧cy

nancy (plural nancies or nancys)

1. (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, US, derogatory, slang, offensive) An effeminate man, especially a homosexual.
   • 2009 September 17, Mike Hale, “‘Glee’, Brought to You By the Letter ‘C’”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 September 2009:

     The wonderful Stephen Tobolowsky returns as Sandy [Ryerson], the flaming former glee club director who’s now the shop teacher, and warns that “you are going to have a school full of nancys unless you get some hot wood in those teenagers’ hands.”

• (an effeminate man): mama's boy, pansy, sissy; see also Thesaurus:effeminate man
• (a homosexual): friend of Dorothy, omi-palone; see also Thesaurus:male homosexual

• nancy up
• nancyboy, nancy boy, nance
• nancy pants

• negative nancy

• Canny, canny