nance 的詞源

"娘娘腔，指扮演被動角色的男同性戀者"，1924年，源自女性名字 Nancy（詳見），該名字在1904年的監獄俚語中作爲形容詞意爲"娘娘腔"（用於男性），是對1824年前的 Miss Nancy, 的縮寫，這是一個貶義詞，指一個過於挑剔、娘娘腔的男人； Nancy boy "娘娘腔的男同性戀者"在1939年有記錄。

Nancy, Miss, an opprobrious epithet for an exceedingly effeminate, over-nice young man. The original Miss Nancy, however, was a Mrs. Anna Oldfield, a celebrated actress, who died in 1730 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. She was extremely vain and nice about her dress, and as she lay in state, attended by two noblemen, she was attired, as she had directed shortly before her death, in "a very fine Brussels lace head-dress, a Holland shift with a tucker and double ruffles of the same lace, a pair of new kid gloves," etc., a circumstance alluded to by Pope .... [William S. Walsh, "Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities," 1892]

南希小姐，是對一個非常娘娘腔、過於講究的年輕男子的侮辱性稱呼。然而，最初的南希小姐是安娜·奧爾德菲爾德夫人，一位著名女演員，於1730年去世並葬於威斯敏斯特教堂。她對自己的服裝非常虛榮和講究，在她的遺體展示時，由兩位貴族陪伴，她穿着她在臨終前指定的"一頂非常精美的布魯塞爾花邊頭飾，一件帶有襟飾和雙層花邊的荷蘭式襯衫，一雙新的小牛皮手套"等等，這一情況被教皇所提及.... [威廉·S·沃爾什，《文學奇聞手冊》，1892年]

沃爾什提出的起源可能不準確。相關詞彙： Nancified。