Cindy

//ˈsɪndi// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the female given name Cynthia and Lucinda; also used as a formal female given name.

    "Cindy came in lugging my trunk, assisted by an elderly servant-woman - - - ["]You may go, Tabitha, to your spinning, and you, Lucinda, bring up a pitcher of water for Miss Mary," said Mrs. Hardinge."

Example

More examples

"The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape."

Etymology

Shortened from Lucinda and Cinderella. In the 20th century adopted as a pet form of Cynthia.

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