Meanings
Elsie1
- A female given name from Hebrew.
"And did he not speak of me, Heyward?" demanded Alice, with jealous affection; "surely, he forgot not altogether his little Elsie?"
1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans/Chapter 63 more examples
Elsie Marley is so neat, / 'Tis hard for one to walk the street / But every lad a lass they meet, / Cries do you ken Elsie Marley, honey?
1784, R. Christopher, The Bishopric Garland, or, Durham Minstrel, Stockton, page 22"Obviously I wasn't going to go through life saddled with a name like Elsie. When I got up to London at the age of eighteen everybody laughed at me, so a boyfriend suggested a tiny amendment, two letters swopped, and I've been Elise for thirty years."
2001, Susan Kelly, Killing the Fatted Calf, Allison & Busby, →ISBN, page 34And inside a white, squat building with paint peeling off its frame, 84-year-old Elsie Eiler is flipping pork fritters and cracking open beer bottles for a pair of regulars under a sign that reads: “Welcome To The World Famous Monowi Tavern. Coldest Beer In Town!”
2020 May 2, Will Francome, Megan Garner, Eliot Stein, “Welcome to Monowi, Nebraska: population 1”, in BBC, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2022
Elsie2
- obsoleterareA diminutive of the male given name Alexander.
Origin
Elsie · proper noun
From a Scottish diminutive of Alison/Alice and Elspeth/Elizabeth.
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Elsie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Elsie
“Elsie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Elsie. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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