nance

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From nancy. As a verb, cf. prance, dance, and mince.

nance (plural nances)

1. (slang) Alternative form of nancy (“an effeminate male homosexual”).
   • 1992, Leigh W. Rutledge, The gay decades: from Stonewall to the present:

     "Fairies, nances, swishes, fags, lezzes — call 'em what you please — should of course be permitted to earn honest livings […]

nance (third-person singular simple present nances, present participle nancing, simple past and past participle nanced)

1. (uncommon, slang) To move in a prissy or stereotypically effeminate manner.

   nancing around in tight pants

• “nance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From American Spanish nance, from Classical Nahuatl.

nance (plural nances)

2. A large shrub or small tree of subtropical and tropical areas of the Americas, Byrsonima crassifolia, bearing a small, sweet, yellow fruit.

• canne

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl nantzi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnanθe/ [ˈnãn̟.θe] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈnanse/ [ˈnãn.se] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -anθe (Spain)
• Rhymes: -anse (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: nan‧ce

nance m (plural nances)

1. a fruit tree of the species Byrsonima crassifolia in the acerola family
2. the fruit of this tree
3. a kind of coffee grown in Costa Rica

• “nance”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024