Lucy vs Ann - What's the difference?
lucy | ann |
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* 1798 William Wordsworth: She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways :
* 1830 , Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
* 2009 Dora Raymond, Aunt Dora's Legacy , AuthorHouse, ISBN 1438980663, page 19 ( Lucy Who ):
derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.
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The partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis , an early ancestor of human beings.
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* 1903 , Man and Superman : Act I:
* 1969 Constance Urdang, Natural History , Harper&Row 1969, page 61:
* 2005 , In Sheep's Clothing , Dafina Books, ISBN 0758203446, page 129:
As a noun lucy
is (archaic) the pike (a kind of fish).As a proper noun ann is
name of a.lucy
English
Proper noun
(wikipedia Lucy) (en proper noun)- 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.
- She lived unknown, and few would know / When Lucy ceased to be;/ But she is in her grave, and, oh,/ The difference to me!
- 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!
- 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?
- Here is Sir William Lucy , who with me / Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid.
ann
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Alternative forms
* AnneProper noun
(en proper noun)- RAMSDEN . When you say Ann , you mean, I presume, Miss Whitefield.
- TANNER''. I mean our Ann''', your '''Ann''', Tavy's '''Ann''', and now, Heaven help me, my ' Ann .
- Given a perfectly good American name like Ann , she has deliberately chosen to label herself "Anya" after a long-dead great-grandmother, and put jam in her tea.
- "Her full name is Annie Lou. Like calling herself a snooty white girl name like Ann makes up for it."
- "Must I remind you that Ann is also my middle name?"