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Elsie
Elsie
English
Proper noun
Elsie
- A female given name.
- 1784 The Bishopric Garland, or, Durham Minstrel, Stockton, R. Christopher, page 22:
- 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?
- 1826 James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans/Chapter 6:
- "And did he not speak of me, Heyward?" demanded Alice, with jealous affection; "surely, he forgot not altogether his little Elsie?"
- 2001 Susan Kelly, Killing the Fatted Calf, Allison & Busby, ISBN 0749005114, page 34:
- "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."
- 1784 The Bishopric Garland, or, Durham Minstrel, Stockton, R. Christopher, page 22:
Usage notes
- Popular as a formal given name in the English-speaking world at the turn of the 20th century.
Etymology 2
From a Scottish diminutive of Alexander.
Proper noun
Elsie
- (rare, obsolete) A diminutive of the male given name Alexander.