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nance
Definition
Or: nancy , from about 1820 onward, a mocking term of address for someone having effeminate manners or someone suspected of being homosexual.QUOTE: Leonard Ashley. Maledicta (Winter, 1980): ' When lord St. Clancey became a nancy / It did not please the family fancy / And so in order to protect him / They did inscribe upon his rectum / All commoners must now drive steerage / This asshole is reserved for peerage.'
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