Meanings
mandy1
Mandy2
plural Mandys · plural Mandies
- A diminutive of the female given name Amanda, popular as a formal given name in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s.
Without looking up, she asked: "Is your name Mandy or Amanda Price?" "Mandy, Miss Etienne." In other circumstances Mandy would have pointed out that if her name were Amanda the CV would have said so.
1994, P.D.James, Original Sin, →ISBN, page 101 more example
But Mother and Father and Grandpa and Grandma and Uncle and Aunty couldn't very well call out "Millicent Margaret Amanda" every time they wanted her, so they shortened it to "Milly-Molly-Mandy" which is quite easy to say.
1928, Joyce Lankester Brisley, chapter 1, in Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories
Mandy3
Mandy4
- Nickname for Peter Mandelson (born 1953), British politician.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Mandy · proper noun
- HungarianMándy
- HungarianMándy
- EnglishMandy
Borrowed from Hungarian Mándy.
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mandy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mandy
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