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Lucy vs Sadie - What's the difference?

lucy | sadie |

As a noun lucy

is (archaic) the pike (a kind of fish).

As a proper noun sadie is

also a popular formal given name in the 19th century.

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.

    • Related terms

    * variants: Lucia, Luci, Lucile, Lucille * male given names: Lucius, Lucian

    sadie

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • . Also a popular formal given name in the 19th century.
  • * 1888 , A Sea-change , Ticknor and company, 1888, page 34
    • We are some of the sales-ladies -
    Minnies, Mamies, Susies, Sadies -
    From the famous house whose trade is
    The distinction and the glory
    Of all modern retail story.

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