10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NANCIFIED»
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
1918–. K. GILES Beautiful smooth dark rum, not like that nancified white stuff you
poms put in your coke (1967). [From obs. slang Miss Nancy noun, effeminate
man, from pet-form of the female personal name Ann.] nanny-goat noun 1 to get (
a ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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Casca Llanna (good News) Love, Woman, Marriage: the Grand ...
Not your rose-colored, mawkish, Miss Nancified, kid-gloved, fair-weather
affection, so commonly met with everywhere except on the stage or in novels, —
but she is equal to one to be found when wanted, and which sticks. Three days
before ...
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Pages in Read Ink: Mysteries of Then and Now
Kelly nodded, and Hale disappeared back into the gloomy jungle of a dark studio
, and the lights went up. At eight o'clock, Kelly slid the first tape into the player.
Cord's basso voice dripped self-righteous venom as he “nancified” the hockey ...
Jeane Heimberger Candido, 2009
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The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical ...
(1924) depicts, "nancified" young men were at home in his world. Regrettably,
very few of Hopwood's personal papers survive; the bulk of them, including his
daybooks, which were in the hands of a childhood girlfriend, were destroyed in
1975, ...
Billy J. Harbin, Kim Marra, Robert A. Schanke, 2005
... NANDINAS NANDINA NANCE NANCES NANCIES NANCIFIED NANCY
NANDIN NANAS NANA NAN NAMESAKE NAMESAKES NAMETAG NAMETAGS
NAMING NAME NAMEABLE NAMED NAMELESS NAMELESSLY
NAMELESSNESS ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
To the right of the invocational lectern, Mr. Wingfoot, their nancified organist,
wearing a crisp white surplice with matching white-rimmed glasses, tiptoed to the
organ and softly sat down. After a twist of his wrist and an exaggerated nod to
God, ...
... though elderly and very scraggy, she had dressed herself up to the nines. She
sang COMIN' THRO' THE RYE with what she meant to be a Scotch accent ... said
jin for gin, boody for buddy ... and smirked and sidled like a nancified young girl ...
Henry Handel Richardson, 1971
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The Great Bordello: A Story of the Theatre
... Keep Kool (1924), makes clear “nancified” young men were at home in his
world. Given the facts of Hopwood's sexuality, it seems clear that aspects of his
relationships with the female characters in the novel are coded representations of
his ...
Avery Hopwood, Jack F. Sharrar, 2011
They're apt to be dilicate and Nancified, as I told Carrie. And I knowed all the time
that Carrie was jist plumb distracted about Frank Woodmansee, only he was kind
o' half after me for a while there, and she only took up with you to make him ...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... ...
a busybody ; a ' nancified ' affected male. Also FADDY = full of fads. FADGE, subs
, (common). — A farthing. ENGLISH SYNONYMS. — Fiddler ; farden ; gig, or grig
; quar- tereen. 1789. GEO. PARKER, Life's Painter, p. 178, s.v. 1811. Lexicon ...
John Stephen Farmer, Henley, 1891
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NANCIFIED»
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nancified is used in the context of the following news items.
Music Review: Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief
... and Thompson, that sets this tune apart from being a fey and thoroughly nancified renaissance faire rendition of ye olde broadside ballade. «Blogcritics.org, Nov 10»
The original artful dodger
Opera, ballet, even reading books is seen as 'nancified' and something solely for the upper classes. Even the children's anti-obesity drive ... «BBC News, Apr 07»
