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Anansy

Anansy is the alternative form of Anansi.

Meaning of Anansi

Proper noun

Anansi

  1. A trickster spider (though sometimes taking human form), one of the primary characters in West African and Caribbean folklore.

Questions about Anansy

What is Anansy the alternative form of?
Anansy is the alternative form of Anansi.

Words near Anansy in the dictionary

  1. anankastics
  2. ananke
  3. Anankean
  4. Ananse
  5. Anansi
  6. Anansy
  7. Anant
  8. Ananta
  9. Anantacaritra
  10. Anantagiri
  11. anantapodota

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Anansy (page history and authors); Anansi (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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