nance
nance is the alternative form of nancy.
Meaning of nancy
Noun
nancy (plural nancies or nancys)
- An effeminate man, especially a homosexual.
- The wonderful Stephen Tobolowsky returns as Sandy [Ryerson], the flaming former glee club director who’s now the shop teacher, and warns that “you are going to have a school full of nancys unless you get some hot wood in those teenagers’ hands.”2009 September 17, Mike Hale, “‘Glee’, Brought to You By the Letter ‘C’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2009
- Synonyms:
- mama's boy, pansy, sissy, omi-palone, friend of Dorothy
Verb (1)
nance (third-person singular simple present nances, present participle nancing, simple past and past participle nanced)
- To move in a prissy or stereotypically effeminate manner.
- nancing around in tight pants
Noun (1)
nance (plural nances)
- A large shrub or small tree of subtropical and tropical areas of the Americas, Byrsonima crassifolia, bearing a small, sweet, yellow fruit.
Proper noun capitalized: Nance
Nance
- A diminutive of the female given name Nancy.
- A Cornish surname.
Noun (2) capitalized: Nance
Nance (plural Nances)
Verb (2) capitalized: Nance
Nance (third-person singular simple present Nances, present participle Nancing, simple past and past participle Nanced)
- To act in an effeminate manner.
Forms of nance
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | nances |
| plural | Nances |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | nances |
| present participle | nancing |
| past participle | nanced |
| past | nanced |
| third-person singular present | Nances |
| present participle | Nancing |
| past participle | Nanced |
| past | Nanced |
Origin of nance
From nancy. As a verb, cf. prance, dance, and mince.
From American Spanish nance, from Classical Nahuatl.
Words formed from nance
Questions about nance
- What does nance mean?
- Nance means to move in a prissy or stereotypically effeminate manner.
- What is nance the alternative form of?
- Nance is the alternative form of nancy.
- What part of speech is nance?
- Nance can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the past tense of nance?
- The past tense of nance is nanced.
Words near nance in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: nance (page history and authors); Nance (page history and authors); nancy (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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