Cindy - What does it mean?

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cindy

English

(wikipedia Cindy)

Alternative forms

* Cindi * Cyndi

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

and Lucinda; also used as a formal female given name.

* 1849 , Vol. 39 (1849), page 55:

Cindy came in lugging my trunk, assisted by an elderly servant-woman - - - ["]You may go, Tabitha, to your spinning, and you, Lucinda, bring up a pitcher of water for Miss Mary," said Mrs. Hardinge.

* 1870 (George Cruikshank), George Cruikshank's Fairy Library (1870), page 10:

Now, you must know that Cinderella had a godmother, - - - . The little old lady sat down upon a small log of wood on the opposite side, and said ,? "Why, Cindy , my darling, you have been crying?"

* 1999 (Ed McBain), The Big Bad City , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671025694, page 139:

Her twin daughters were on the playground equipment. Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them.

* 2010 , And the Land Lay Still , Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 9780241143568, page 95:

'Cindy sounds nice.' 'She is.' 'Is that her real name? Like the doll?' 'Aye, but with a C. C-I-N-D-Y.' 'Isn't that how the doll's spelled?' 'No, the doll has an S.'

Usage notes

* Popular given name in the U.S.A. in the 1950s.

Not English

has no English definition. It may be misspelled.