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▪ I. nancy1|ˈnænsɪ|
Also ananci, hanancy.
[ad. Tshi (Ashantee, etc.) ananse spider; anansesem spider-story.]
nancy-story, nancy-tale, a folk- or fairy tale of a type current among the Blacks in the Gold Coast and the West Indies.[1705tr. Bosman's Guinea xvii. 332 The Negroes call this spider Ananse, and believe that the first Men were made by that Creature.] a1818M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834) 253 The Negroes are very fond of what they call Nancy stories, part of which is related, and part sung. Ibid. 307 It seems to be an indispensable requisite for a Nancy-story, that it should contain a witch, or a duppy. 1891Hartland Sci. Fairy Tales xi. 294 An ananci tale in which the heroine and her two sisters are changed into black cats. 1894Alice Spinner Study in Colour ix. 80 She told her nancy stories. 1967Times 24 June 11/5 Here in Guyana, the term ‘a nancy story’ is common everyday parlance for a far-fetched yarn or even a downright lie... A ‘Nancy Story’ is..one of the very few fragments of African culture which survived transplantation with the slaves.
▪ II. nancy2 slang.|ˈnænsɪ|
Also nancy-boy.
[orig. Miss Nancy (miss n.2 2 b), f. pet-form of the female name Ann.]
An effeminate man or boy; a homosexual. Also as adj. Hence ˈnancified ppl. a.; ˈnancifully adv.
1904‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 251/1 Nancy, effeminate man. 1918C. Mackenzie Early Life Sylvia Scarlett i. iv. 123 If you can let that nancified milksop mess you about, you can put up with me. 1930E. Waugh Vile Bodies 36 Where's my Fairy Prince? Powdering hisself again, I suppose... Come here, Nancy, and put away the beauty cream. 1931R. Campbell Georgiad ii. 36 Sharing out my last desires and fancies With tough old suffragettes and ageing nancies. Ibid. 42 Grim guards enough to awe the Nancy race. Ibid., Their flag of truce they raise To bribe his laughter with their public praise, And all their little nancy husbands too. 1933H. S. Walpole Vanessa iv. 723 But he isn't one of those, you know, or anything like that. Not a bit nancy. 1936‘G. Orwell’ Keep Aspidistra Flying i. 19 A youth..with gilded hair, tripped Nancifully in. 1937― Road to Wigan Pier ii. 35 You and I..and the Nancy poets..—all of us really owe the comparative decency of our lives to poor drudges underground,..with their lungs full of coal dust. 1937Times 25 Jan. 37/2 That nancyfied nonentity in the Foreign Office. 1937E. Linklater Juan in China xxii. 288 You're a fop and a nancified civilian. 1947L. Hastings Dragons are Extra x. 224 In the early part of the War I had occasional glimpses of an unfamiliar species known comprehensibly, I believe, as the Nancy Left. 1958L. Durrell Balthazar ii. 31, I can't stand that Toto fellow. He's an open nancy-boy. 1967K. Giles Death & Mr. Prettyman ii. 58 Beautiful smooth dark rum, not like that nancified white stuff you poms put in your cokes. 1974L. Deighton Spy Story xv. 148 Pop music and nancy-boy actors.
▪ III. nancy
narcissus: see sweet Nancy. |