Nessie

//ˈnɛsi// name, slang

name, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Loch Ness monster. informal

    "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 Nessiteras rhombopteryx (Anonymous, 1975)."

  2. 2
    A diminutive of the female given name Agnes.

Synonyms

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loch ness monsterloch ness monster

Example

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"You say Nessie is an imaginary being, but I think she exists."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Ness + -ie.

Etymology 2

Suffixed with -ie, compare Neddie and Nellie, respectively from Edward and Eleanor

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given nameloch ness monster

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