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Percy

/ˈpɜɹsi/ noun C2
  1. A male person regarded as unmanly or weak; a sissy. (slang)
  2. A male conscientious objector. (slang)
  3. An educated soldier; specifically, an officer. (slang)

Plural Percies

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During my school-days I had been intimately associated with a lad named Percy Phelps, who was of much the same age as myself, though he was two classes ahead of me.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 56 · B2
Your old schoolfellow, Percy Phelps.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 58 · B2
“Percy has been inquiring for you all morning.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 60 · B2
Joseph Harrison is my name, and as Percy is to marry my sister Annie I shall at least be a relation by marriage.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 60 · B2

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