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Mandy vs Manny - What's the difference?

mandy | manny |

As proper nouns the difference between mandy and manny

is that mandy is {{given name|female|diminutive=Amanda}}. Popular as a formal given name in the U.K. in the 1960s and 1970s while Manny is a diminutive=Emmanuel given name.

As nouns the difference between mandy and manny

is that mandy is the drug MDMA while manny is a male nanny for children.

mandy

English

Proper noun

(en-proper noun) (plural Mandys )
  • . 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:
    • 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.
  • * 1994 P.D.James: Original Sin ISBN 0679438890 page 10:
    • 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.

    manny

    English

    Noun

    (mannies)
  • (informal) A male nanny (for children).
  • *2006 [Perry Taylor] has popped up in supermarket tabloids as the male nanny – or "manny" – for Britney Spears, who has a 9-month-old son, Sean Preston and is pregnant. — CBS News, 9 June 2006

    • See also

    * mannie * Mannie * Manny