percy

plural percies

1. slangA unit of Percocet.

   Why did you desert me? You keep poppin percies

   2022 September 22, “Unworthy” (track 12), in Superstar

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   Them percies fuck up my reaction She stuck on me she immune

   2018 August 17, “Choose” (track 8, 0:49 from the start), in Summrs (lyrics), Devotion

   Yeah, I just do it (Yeah), I don't hesitate (No) I took a couple percies, yeah, to the face

   2021 June 6, “Come Again” (0:44 from the start), Yeat (lyrics)

   It's too much hate and envy My nigga change my percies

   2022 December 20, “Petty” (track 7), in MoneySign Suede (lyrics), Parkside Santa

plural Percys · plural Percies

1. countableuncountableAn English surname from Old French.

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   Hot[spur]. My name is Harry Percy. / Pr[ince]. VVhy then I ſee / A very valiant rebel of that name; / I am the Prince of VVales, and thinke not Percy / To ſhare vvith me in glory any more: / Tvvo ſtars keepe not their motion in one ſphere, / Nor can one England brooke a double raigne / Of Harry Percy and the Prince of VVales.

   c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], signature K2, verso

2. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname or from a clipping of Percival, of Middle Ages and later usage.

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   Speaking of Sligo, I have written again to ask if I may visit there sometime soon, and talk to the administrator, who it turns out is an old acquaintance, a man called Percival Quinn, I think the only Percy I have heard of in the present era, let alone met. […] [T]here may be other files there that even Percy feels can't be communicated, but I don't know.

   2008, Sebastian Barry, chapter 16, in The Secret Scripture […], London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, pages 198–199

3. A place name:
   1. countableuncountableA commune in Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
   2. countableuncountableA village in Manche department, Normandy, France.
   3. countableuncountableA township in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States.
   4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Washington County, Mississippi, United States.
   5. countableuncountableA village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States.

plural Percies

1. alsoattributivederogatoryslangA male person regarded as unmanly or weak; a sissy.

   He never palliated his villainy, never helped old ladies across the street to show that he was a sweet kid au fond or prated about his Oedipus complex like the Percy boys who portray heavies today.

   1957, S[idney] J[oseph] Perelman, “Cloudland Revisited: Vintage Swine”, in The Road to Miltown: Or, Under the Spreading Atrophy (A Touchstone Book), 1st Touchstone paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, published 1971, →ISBN, page 88

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   The military arm is considerably bothered by the problem of what to do with him [the conscientious objector]. It tacitly invites the rank and file to have a lark with him in barracks, in the hope that if he is bullied and told that he will be shot next morning, and mobbed and pilloried and photographed in The Daily Sketch as Percy (all Percies are now—shade of Hotspur!—supposed to be cowards) he will, perhaps, stop giving trouble.

   1915 May 27, [George] Bernard Shaw, “The Conscientious Objector: Conscientious Objectors”, in What I Really Wrote about the War, standard edition, London: Constable and Company, published 1931, →OCLC, page 226

   Synonyms: nancy, pansy, bading, big girl's blouse, cockney, cot-quean, cupcake, dudelet · Antonyms: Chad, hombre, he-man, macho, jock, macho man, man among men, manimal

2. alsoattributivederogatoryhistoricalslangA male conscientious objector.
3. alsoattributivederogatoryslanggovernmentAn educated soldier; specifically, an officer.

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   ["]I must admit I'm not terribly good at figures." / "Never met an officer as was," said Sam. "Most of the young Percies in our mob had to take their boots off to count up to twenty. But don't worry about that. Aunty'll give you the figures. She's got 'em all in her head, like a bleedin' adding machine. It's her handwriting and spelling that gets everybody down. It's soddin' awful she can't read it herself five minutes after."

   1974, Berkely Mather [pseudonym; John Evan Weston-Davies], chapter 21, in The White Dacoit, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 196

4. AustraliaUKhumorousslangChiefly in point Percy at the porcelain: the penis.

   Synonyms: anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga