annieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈæni/
• 韻: -æni

固有名詞

Annie (plural Annies)

1. A diminutive of the female given name Ann. Also, a popular given name in the 19th century.
   • c. 1700, William Douglas(?), Annie Laurie:

     Maxwelton braes are bonnie / Where early fa's the dew; / An' it's there that Annie Laurie / Gi'ed me her promise true.

   • 1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:

     I never thought of the most brilliant and elegant women in England quite so charming as she really is, till I heard her call her younger sister "Annie". It seemed to remove at once the almost repellent quality which belongs to extreme polish, - gave a genial warmth to her brightness, became her like a smile. - - - If she had called her sister Anna-Maria according to the register, I should have admired, and feared, and shunned her to my dying day.

   • 1947, Hilda Lawrence, Death of a Doll, pages 39–40:

     "I want you to stop calling yourself by that silly name, Annie," Mrs. Marshall-Gill said clearly. "It's inappropriate and ridiculous and I don't like it. It may even be dishonest, I don't know. At any rate, you're to stop it at once. I looked up your registration, and your name is Annie, a solid, Christian name. You'll do well to abide by it."
     "I don't like Annie," Jewel said.
     "It suits your face," Mrs. Marshall-Gill said. A titter ran around the listening room.

   • 2014 August 13, Adi Robertson, “Can you own a language?”, in The Verge‎, archived from the original on 5 April 2025:

     TAC language program coordinator Annie Reynolds says that palawa kani should not become available to the general public "until aborigines themselves are familiar and competent with it."

2. (derogatory) A female orphan.

派生語

アナグラム

• -anine, inane, nenia