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addy

addy noun: address (especially e-mail address).

Noun (1)

addy (plural addies)

  1. (Internet) Address (especially e-mail address).
    • My e-mail addy is being spammed. I should've kept it private.
  2. (slang) Adderall.

Proper noun capitalized: Addy

Addy (plural Addys or Addies)

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Adelaide, Adeline, Adrienne, and Addison, from the Germanic languages or French or transferred from the surname.
    • My name is Addison Jane Dawson, but you can call me Addy; everyone else does.2009, J. Scott Romig, The Lookout Tree, Author House, →ISBN, page 1
  2. A diminutive of the male given name Adam, from Hebrew.
    • "Let be, Addy, let be. Ben will be joking. Why, he's i' the right to laugh at me--I canna help laughing at myself." "I shan't loose him till he promises to let the door alone," said Adam.1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Adam Bede/Chapter I”, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
  3. A surname originating as a patronymic, derived from the given name Adam.

Noun (2) capitalized: Addy

Addy (countable and uncountable, plural Addies)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Addie (“Adderall”).

Forms of addy

Noun
pluraladdies
pluralAddies
Proper noun
pluralAddys
pluralAddies
alternative formAddie
alternative formAddi

Origin of addy

Shortenings + -y.

Diminutive forms with -y.

From the brand name Adderall + -y.

Words formed from addy

Words that rhyme with addy

4 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about addy

What does addy mean?
Addy means address (especially e-mail address).
What part of speech is addy?
Addy can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of addy?
The plural of addy is addies.

Words near addy in the dictionary

  1. adducts
  2. addulce
  3. addulced
  4. addulces
  5. addulcing
  6. addy
  7. Addyman
  8. Addysen
  9. Addyson
  10. ade
  11. adeagi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: addy (page history and authors); Addy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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