subs. (common).—An effeminate man; a MISS NANCY (q.v.).

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  1691.  Merry Drollery, ‘The Jovial Lover,’ p. 12.

        The Gittarn and the Lute, the Pipe and the Flute
Are the new Alamode for the NAN-BOYS.

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  1898.  The Sporting Times, 19 Feb., I., 3. But do you think we enjoyed these superfine MISS NANCIES a quarter as much as we did the daring darlings who subsequently lured them down the Madeira Drive’?

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  2.  (venery).—A catamite.

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