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Nessie

//ˈnɛsi// name, slang

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.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Ness + -ie.

Etymology 2

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

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