nancy — ozdic

Collocations

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ADJ.

capable, dreadful, hard, invited, ready, shy

She was a shy nancy who rarely spoke up in class meetings.

VERB + NANCY

hate, name, names, resist, say, sighed

My older brother would always hate nancy boys at school, which embarrassed me constantly.

NANCY + NOUN

'algernon', anything, elbows, fool, jane, jerry, lovelace, room

Nancy Algernon spent the afternoon organizing her entire kitchen by color and category.

PREP.

off, on, with

She decided to nancy off the boring committee meeting and go shopping instead.

ADV.

such

I've never seen someone act quite so nancy about getting a little dirt on their new shoes.

Definitions

noun

1

An effeminate man, especially a homosexual.

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.”

name

1

A female given name.

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.

"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."

noun

1

Alternative letter-case form of nancy.

HAWKER, the Australian, who is to handle the Sopwith plane, predicts that any fast steamer out of New York will have no difficulty in beating the “Nancies” of the United States Navy.

Funny peculiar: Ganymede promising latitude, if not liberation. The Boy Done Good. For Nancies. He might, however, mean something vastly different for Normals, who are quietly - one could even say covertly - being invited to role model their increasing redundant selves on that darling petal Leonardo DeCaprio.^([sic])

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Idioms & Phrases

negative Nancy

A person who is considered excessively and disagreeably pessimistic.

2001, Sara Jane Sluke, Vanessa Torres, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing with Stress for Teens "Be wary of being a Negative Nancy."

Example Bank

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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

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02

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.

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"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?"

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04

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

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HAWKER, the Australian, who is to handle the Sopwith plane, predicts that any fast steamer out of New York will have no difficulty in beating the “Nancies” of the United States Navy.

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Funny peculiar: Ganymede promising latitude, if not liberation. The Boy Done Good. For Nancies. He might, however, mean something vastly different for Normals, who are quietly - one could even say cov

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, nancy is marked as derogatory, offensive, slang, British, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.