lucy
see also: Lucy
Noun
Lucy
Pronunciation
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see also: Lucy
Noun
lucy (plural lucies)
- (archaic) The pike a kind of fish.
- 1895, The Gentleman's Magazine, January to June issue, [http://books.google.com/books?id=qTDNv_biFioC&pg=PA38&dq=%22a+lucy%22+date:1800-1900+pike&lr= pg. 38]:
- That a lucy or luce is the mature pike, every piscatorial schoolboy knows.
- 1895, The Gentleman's Magazine, January to June issue, [http://books.google.com/books?id=qTDNv_biFioC&pg=PA38&dq=%22a+lucy%22+date:1800-1900+pike&lr= pg. 38]:
Lucy
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈluːsi/
- A female given name.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book V, canto IV, stanza 9:
- Then did my younger brother Amidas / Love that same other Damzell, Lucy bright,/ To whom but little dowre allotted was;/ Her vertue was the dowre, that did delight.
- 1798 William Wordsworth: She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways:
- She lived unknown, and few would know / When Lucy ceased to be;/ But she is in her grave, and, oh,/ The difference to me!
- 1830 Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
- But certainly there are some names which seem to belong to particular classes of character, to form the mind and even influence the destiny: Louisa, now; - is not your Louisa necessarily a die-away damsel, who reads novels, and holds her head on one side, languishing and given to love! Is not Lucy a pretty soubrette, a wearer of cast gowns and cast smiles, smart and coquettish!
- 2009 Dora Raymond, Aunt Dora's Legacy, AuthorHouse, ISBN 1438980663, page 19 ( Lucy Who ):
- Now we'll just use a fiction name / Lucy that sounds nice / A name we can remember / Without repeating twice / / My name is so old fashioned / And they are very few / But some will have a puzzled look / And whisper Lucy who?
- Surname derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):: Act IV, Scene IV:
- Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me / Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid.
- The partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis, an early ancestor of human beings.
- (slang) The drug LSD.
- Dick Cavett
- The last time I made moocah, or dug sweet Lucy, was with Janis Joplin, who gave me one that must have been rolled by Montezuma himself. I saw my thoughts in clear letters, and they both felt and looked like a double strike on a coin […]
- Dick Cavett
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