Noun: negative Nancy
| Singular | negative Nancy |
| Plural | negative Nancies; negative Nancys |
Sample Sentences
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2001, Sara Jane Sluke, Vanessa Torres, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing with Stress for Teens
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"Be wary of being a Negative Nancy."
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"You're being negative Nancy today," [2002, Angela Winters, Dangerous Memories - Page 133]
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"Finally, if you tell a Negative Nancy about your secret plans, she might doubt that you'll get your heart's desire." [2008, B. Jain Publishers, Cosmic Love - Page 15]
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“Don’t worry about the basement Bobbys or negative Nancys,” read the sign held by Morgan Morrison, 28, the mother of a second grader who “lost her mask on the second day.” [2020 August 12, Richard Fausset, “925 Quarantined for Covid. Is This a Successful School Reopening?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2020:]
Nouns inflected like negative Nancy
shindy,
blowdry,
Furby,
hully gully,
Benny,
Becky,
caeremony,
caerimony,
Nancy,
Nippy,
ceremony,
cerimony,
cæremony,
cærimony,
catenby,
negative Nancy,
stage-door Johnny,
negative nancy,
blow dry,
blow-dry, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology