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Definition of nancy story in English: nancy storynoun West Indian 1A traditional African folk tale about Anancy the spider, who overcomes others by cunning. Example sentencesExamples - Only Mike and nancy stories are consistently worth watching for.
- So for me, nancy stories have always had a humorous air of winking at the audience, as though the storyteller's saying, ‘we all know people like this, but let's not name any names.’
- 1.1 An elaborate evasive story or lie.
the minister had left the country and so could not give his side of the nancy story Example sentencesExamples - ‘I do not find it strange that he and his kind will seek to create his own nancy stories.’
Synonyms lie, fib, falsehood, untruth, fabrication, fiction, piece of fiction - 1.2 A superstitious belief.
God is a nancy story, you hear
Origin Nancy, shortening of Anancy, from Akan ananse 'spider'. |