Nancy

• IPA^(key): /ˈnænsi/
  • (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛənsi]
• Rhymes: -ænsi

Medieval diminutive of Ann and Agnes. Compare Betsy, Patsy.

Nancy (plural Nancys or Nancies)

1. A female given name.
   • 1792, Robert Burns, Ae Fond Kiss:

     I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy,
     Naething could resist my Nancy:
     But to see her was to love her;
     Love but her, and love forever.

   • 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 7, in Pollyanna‎^[1], L.C. Page, →OCLC:

     "And they've got lovely names, too. You'll like their names," sighed Nancy. "They're 'Algernon' and 'Florabelle' and 'Estelle'. I - I just hate Nancy!" "Oh, Nancy, what a dreadful thing to say! Why?" "Because it isn't pretty like the others. You see, I was the first baby, and mother hadn't begun ter read so many stories with the pretty names in them, then."

   • 2003, Ira Pohl, “Nested Classes”, in C# by Dissection: The Essentials of C# Programming, Boston, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 249:

     There are many Nancies and Jerries in the world. They get told apart by a further name, such as Nancy Lovelace, or Jerry Turing.

• nance, Nance
• nancyboy
• Nancy Dawson
• nonce
• nosy Nancy

From French Nancy, from Medieval Latin Nanciacum, from Old High German Nanzig.

Nancy

1. A city in Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est, north-eastern France.

• Canny, canny

Borrowed from English Nancy.

• Hyphenation: Nan‧cy
• IPA^(key): /ˈnansi/ [ˈn̪an̪.s̪ɪ]

Nancy

1. a female given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek]

Borrowed from English Nancy.

• IPA^(key): /nan.si/

Nancy f

1. a female given name from English

From the medieval name, Medieval Latin Nanciacum, from Old High German Nanzig.

• IPA^(key): /nɑ̃.si/

Nancy m

1. Nancy (a city, the prefecture of Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est, France)

• nancéien
• Nancéien, Nancéienne

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Nancy f

1. a female given name

• Néné, Nénai
• Nénotte

Borrowed from English Nancy.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈnansi/ [ˈn̪an̪.sɪ]
• Rhymes: -ansi
• Syllabification: Nan‧cy

Nancy (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜈ᜔ᜐᜒ)

1. a female given name from English