Lucy
WordNet

noun


(1)   Incomplete skeleton of female found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974
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Etymology


Medieval English vernacular form of Lucia, name of a Sicilian martyr, from the feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lucius, from "light".

Proper noun


  1. derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.

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Quotations

: Act IV, Scene IV:
  • Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me / Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid.: 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 Mary Russell Mitford, 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?
 
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