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NANNIE

"NANNIE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "favor", "grace".

Date "NANNIE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)

"NANNIE" is a common misspelling or typo for: nanny, ninnies, ninny.


Specialty Definition: NANNIE

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Literature

Nannie to whom Burns has addressed several of his songs, was Miss Fleming, daughter of a farmer in the parish of Tarbolton, Ayrshire. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: NANNIE

Specialty definitions using "NANNIE": Nannie. (references)

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Commercial Usage: NANNIE

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Books

  • My Heart is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl (Dear America) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: NANNIE

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Faculty, National Training School for Women and Girls, Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, President, Lincoln Heights, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nine Afro-American women posed, standing, full length, with Nannie Burroughs holding banner reading, "Banner State Woman's National Baptist Convention". Credit: Library of Congress.

Group portrait of over sixty men and women, primarily African American men, posed in front of a brick building, probably in Washington, D.C.; Nannie Helen Burroughs appears in front row] / Scurlock, photo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ann Minerva "Nannie" Rodgers Macomb, three-quarter length portrait of woman, facing right in profile, seated in chair with arm resting on table with tablecloth. Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait group of Mrs. Frances (Folsom) Cleveland and the ladies of the Cabinet: Olive Harmon, Jane P. Francis, M.J. Carlisle, Agnes P. Olney, Nannie H. Wilson, Juliet K. Lamont, and Leila Herbert. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nannie Emrick farm near Aledo, Illinois, showing how tree roots cling to soil in gully erosion. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: NANNIE

"NANNIE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NANNIE" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2865,706

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: NANNIE

The following table summarizes the usage of "NANNIE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
NannieFirst name Female13,000768
NannieLast name13061,661
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: NANNIE

"NANNIE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "favor", "grace".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "NANNIE."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
HannahFemaleBiblicalN/A
AnnFemaleEnglishAnne
AnneFemaleEnglishHannah
AnnmarieFemaleEnglishAnn
HannahFemaleEnglishN/A
NanFemaleEnglishAnn
NancyFemaleEnglishAnn
NannieFemaleEnglishAnn
AnneFemaleFrenchHannah
HannahFemaleFrenchN/A
AnneFemaleGermanHannah
HannahFemaleJewishN/A
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NANNIE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

nannie

29

nannie agency

7

nannie net

7

nannie helen burroughs

6

nannie job

5

doss nannie

5

burroughs helen nannie school

4

diary nannie

4

nannie service

2

nannie training

2

island nannie

2

annie nannie punishment

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: NANNIE

Language Translations for "NANNIE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

zeeprik (nannie nine eyes, sea lamprey, sea-lamprey, stone sucker), zeelamprei (nannie nine eyes, sea-lamprey, stone sucker), grote negenoog (nannie nine eyes, sea-lamprey, stone sucker). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

annienay

   

Russian 

  

of Ann (Annie, Nanny 2, Nina, Ninette, Ninon), Anna Нэнни (Nanny 2). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: NANNIE

Derivations

Words beginning with "NANNIE": nannies. (additional references)

Words containing "NANNIE": hootenannies. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: NANNIE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-n-n"

-1 letter: inane.

-2 letters: nine.

-3 letters: ain, ane, ani, inn, nae, nan.

-4 letters: ae, ai, an, en, in, na, ne.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-n-n"
 

+1 letter: nannies.

 

+2 letters: annexing, hennaing.

 

+3 letters: annealing, annelidan, antivenin, bannering, benignant, canniness, enhancing, enplaning, ensnaring, inaneness, infantine, inspanned, intendant, mannequin, neatening, nonlineal, nonlinear, nonnative, nonsaline, penancing, remanning, tenanting, uncannier, unmeaning.

 

+4 letters: annelidans, annexation, annunciate, anointment, antivenins, benignancy, cannelloni, cannonries, centennial, channeling, coannexing, connivance, enchaining, enchanting, engraining, ensanguine, ensnarling, entangling, entraining, entrancing, flanneling, gangrening, innateness, innominate, insaneness, intendance, intendants, mannequins, nonaligned, nonbearing, noncabinet, nondeviant, nonearning, nongenital, nonnatives, nonreading, nonvintage, reannexing, replanning, shenanigan, trepanning, uncanniest, unlearning, unwinnable, venenating.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NANNIE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 41 4E 4E 49 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01000001 01001110 01001110 01001001 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#65 &#78 &#78 &#73 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0041 004E 004E 0049 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

483548484339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Names: Derived from
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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