Mandy vs Angel - What's the difference?
mandy | angel |
. Popular as a formal given name in the U.K. in the 1960s and 1970s.
* 1928 Joyce Lankester Brisley: Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories . Chapter 1:
* 1994 P.D.James: Original Sin ISBN 0679438890 page 10:
A divine and supernatural messenger from a deity, or other divine entity.
* Ben Jonson
(Abrahamic tradition) The lowest order of angels, below virtues.
A selfless person.
(military slang) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
An affluent individual who provides capital for a startup, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.
A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches.
* Bible, Rev. ii. 1
(obsolete) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
(historical) An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.
(slang) To support by donating money.
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As a noun mandy
is (uk|slang|uncountable) the drug mdma.As a proper noun angel is
.mandy
English
Proper noun
(en-proper noun) (plural Mandys )- But Mother and Father and Grandpa and Grandma and Uncle and Aunty couldn't very well call out "Millicent Margaret Amanda" every time they wanted her, so they shortened it to "Milly-Molly-Mandy " which is quite easy to say.
- Without looking up, she asked: "Is your name Mandy or Amanda Price?"
- "Mandy', Miss Etienne." In other circumstances ' Mandy would have pointed out that if her name were Amanda the CV would have said so.
angel
English
(wikipedia angel)Alternative forms
* aynjel (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)- The dear good angel of the Spring, / The nightingale.
- You made me breakfast in bed, you little angel .
- Climb to angels sixty.
- Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
*Hyponyms
* cherub, minion, power, principality, seraph, throneDerived terms
* angel's dram * angelfish * angelic * angel of death * angel of mercy * angelology * archangel * guardian angel * fallen angelDescendants
* Hawaiian:Verb
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