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Nessies

Nessies is the plural of Nessie.

Meaning of Nessie

Proper noun (1)

Nessie (plural Nessies)

  1. (informal) The Loch Ness monster.
    • That flurry of activity had been set off by a magisterial book (Whyte, 1957), reinforced by Dinsdale’s filming of a Nessie (Dinsdale, 1961) and culminating in successful underwater photography (Rines et al., 1976) by the Academy of Applied Science (AAS). Nessies were assigned the taxonomic identity...2002, Henry H. B. Auer, “The Case for the Loch Ness 'Monster': The Scientific Evidence”, in Journal of Scientific Exploration, volume 16, number 2, pages 225–246

Proper noun (2)

Nessie (plural Nessies)

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Agnes.

Questions about Nessies

What is Nessies the plural of?
Nessies is the plural of Nessie.

Words near Nessies in the dictionary

  1. Nessen
  2. Nesser
  3. Nessers
  4. nesses
  5. Nessie
  6. Nessies
  7. Nesslau
  8. Nessler
  9. Nessler cylinder
  10. Nessler cylinders
  11. Nessler tube

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