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Percy|ˈpɜːsɪ|
The masculine Christian name used, freq. with connotations of weakness or effeminacy, as a representative name for a. a conscientious objector; b. (see quot. 1932); c. in the armed services, an officer or an educated man.
1916G. B. Shaw in Nation 27 May 258/2 Mobbed and pilloried and photographed in the ‘Daily Sketch’ as ‘Percy’ (all Percies are now—shade of Hotspur!—supposed to be cowards). 1932E. Weekley Words & Names 91 Percy..is still used in the United States of the typical young Englishman. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1217/2 Percy, in the Royal Navy, has, since ca. 1925, meant an effeminate man; but since ca. 1940, also and esp. a studious, quiet, educated man as opposed to an uncouth ‘tough’. 1974‘B. Mather’ White Dacoit xxi. 216 Most of the young Percies in our mob had to take their boots off to count up to twenty. Ibid. xxiii. 237 There's a young Percy in charge... The Percy says to one of them, ‘What's your unit, my man?’ |