Nancy Dawson

English

Etymology

Likely taken from the stage name of eighteenth-century dancer and actress Ann Newton.

Noun

Nancy Dawson (plural Nancy Dawsons)

  1. (slang, derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.
    • 1974, Michael Tyler-Whittle, Bertie‎[1], page 250:
      Though harmless and gentle he would have been described as a Greek or a Uranist by the exquisites of Cambridge, or as a Nancy Dawson by everyone else.
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