See nancy on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "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.",
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"word": "nancyboy"
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"word": "nancy boy"
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{
"word": "nance"
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{
"word": "nancy pants"
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"ref": "2009 September 17, Mike Hale, “‘Glee’, Brought to You By the Letter ‘C’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2009:",
"text": "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.”",
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"An effeminate man, especially a homosexual."
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"(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, US, derogatory, slang, offensive) An effeminate man, especially a homosexual."
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"sense": "an effeminate man",
"word": "mama's boy"
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"word": "pansy"
},
{
"word": "sissy"
},
{
"word": "omi-palone"
},
{
"sense": "a homosexual",
"word": "friend of Dorothy"
}
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{
"word": "sissy"
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{
"word": "omi-palone"
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}
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