addy

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noun

Address (especially e-mail address).

“My e-mail addy is being spammed. I should've kept it private.”

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

addy1

nounaddy (plural addies)

plural addies

  1. InternetAddress (especially e-mail address).

    My e-mail addy is being spammed. I should've kept it private.

  2. slangAdderall.

Addy2

proper nounAddy (plural Addys or Addies)

plural Addys · plural Addies · alternative Addie · alternative Addi

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Adelaide, Adeline, Adrienne, and Addison, from the Germanic languages or French or transferred from the surname.

    My name is Addison Jane Dawson, but you can call me Addy; everyone else does.

    2009, J. Scott Romig, The Lookout Tree, Author House, →ISBN, page 1
  2. A diminutive of the male given name Adam, from Hebrew.

    "Let be, Addy, let be. Ben will be joking. Why, he's i' the right to laugh at me--I canna help laughing at myself." "I shan't loose him till he promises to let the door alone," said Adam.

    1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Adam Bede/Chapter I”, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
  3. A surname originating as a patronymic, derived from the given name Adam.

Addy3

nounAddy (countable and uncountable, plural Addies)

plural Addies

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of Addie (“Adderall”).

Origin

addy · noun

Shortenings + -y.

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Addy · proper noun

Diminutive forms with -y.

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Addy · noun

From the brand name Adderall + -y.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

addy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/addy

MLA

“addy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/addy. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “addy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/addy.

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