Gentle Annie

noun

A long uphill road or trail without a resting place.

“Gentle Annie Rise, Tasmania”

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Meanings

nounGentle Annie (plural Gentle Annies)

plural Gentle Annies

  1. AustraliaNew ZealandinformalA long uphill road or trail without a resting place.

    Gentle Annie Rise, Tasmania

    1 more example

    Gentle Annie Hill, New Zealand

  2. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Origin

Possibly related to the Celtic goddess Anann (an aspect of the Mórrígan responsible, among other things, for culling weak cattle) or to the Stephen Foster song Gentle Annie (1856).

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APA

Gentle Annie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gentle%20Annie

MLA

“Gentle Annie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gentle%20Annie. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Gentle Annie,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gentle%20Annie.

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