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.

• IPA: /ˈnænsi/

nancy (plural nancies)

1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, US, derogatory, slang, offensive) An effeminate man, especially a homosexual.

• (an effeminate man) mama's boy, pansy, sissy; see also Thesaurus:effeminate man
• (a homosexual) friend of Dorothy, omi-palone; see also Thesaurus:male homosexual

• IPA: /ˈnænsi/
  • (æ-tensing) IPA: [ˈnɛənsi]

Medieval diminutive of Ann and Agnes. Compare Betsy, Patsy.

1. A female given name.
   • 1792, Robert Burns, Ae Fond Kiss:

     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.

   • 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter [S%3Aen%3APollyanna%2FChapter+7 7], in Pollyanna‎, L.C. Page, →OCLC ↗:

     "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."

• French: Nancy
• Russian: Нэ́нси

1. A city in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Grand Est.

• French: Nancy
• German: Nanzig
• Russian: Нанси