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Cathy vs Megan - What's the difference?

cathy | megan |

As a proper noun cathy

is a diminutive form of catherine and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century.

cathy

English

Alternative forms

* Cathi * Cathie * Kathi * Kathie * Kathy

Proper noun

(en-proper noun)
  • A diminutive form of Catherine and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century.
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  • *:It was named Catherine, but he never called it the name in full, as he had never called the first Catherine short, probably because Heathcliff had a habit of doing so. The little one was always Cathy , it formed to him a distinction from the mother, and yet, a connection with her;
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    megan

    English

    Proper noun

    (en-proper noun).
  • borrowed from (etyl).
  • * 1916 John Galsworthy: The Apple Tree : Chapter VIII:
  • Was it true that twenty-six years had passed, or had he dreamed and awakened to find Megan waiting for him by the big apple tree?

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