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Lightswitch vs Lucy - What's the difference?

lightswitch | lucy |

As nouns the difference between lightswitch and lucy

is that lightswitch is while lucy is (archaic) the pike (a kind of fish).

lightswitch

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Noun

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  • lucy

    English

    Proper noun

    (wikipedia Lucy) (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * : V:iv: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 , 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?
  • derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.
  • * : 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.