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lucy
/ˈlusi/
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What does lucy mean?
noun
- (slang) The drug LSD.
proper noun
- A female given name from Latin.
- A surname from Old French derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.
More meanings (6)
proper noun
- The fossilized partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis discovered in Ethiopia, an early hominin; also, the individual whose skeleton this was.
- A village in Montmort-Lucy commune, Marne department, Grand Est, France.
- A commune in Moselle department, Grand Est, France.
- A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
- An unincorporated community in Houston County, Alabama, United States.
noun
- (archaic) The northern pike (a kind of fish).
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IPA pronunciation
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It would be impossible to do justice to the meeting scene between him, his Lucy, and her aged father.
“Come, Lucy, my dear, don’t be so down-hearted. You always have spoiled the boy, and you must go on spoiling him.”
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He therefore accosted him when he got up to him, with the object of finding out what Lucy Ferrier’s fate had been.
“Sir,” I said, “you could have no better claim on me than that you were a friend and helper of Lucy Westenra.”
I said, "My dear Miss Lucy, why do you have that picture in here? Don't you know, he is a cigarette smoker?"