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Christy

1

[kris-tee]

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

plural

Christies 
  1. Christie.



Christy

2

[kris-tee]

noun

  1. Edwin P., 1815–62, U.S. minstrel-show performer and producer.

  2. Howard Chandler 1873–1952, U.S. illustrator and painter.

  3. a male given name, form of Christopher.

  4. a female given name, form of Christine.

Christy

/ ˈɪɪ /

noun

  1. skiing a turn in which the body is swung sharply round with the skis parallel, originating in Norway and used for stopping, slowing down, or changing direction quickly

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Christy1

By shortening
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Christy1

C20: shortened from Christiania
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Example Sentences

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Sale ranks No. 40 on the all-time strikeout list, and he next will pass Christy Mathewson, who needed a prodigious 4,788 innings to log 2,507 strikeouts from 1900-16.

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Christy Harrison, a registered dietitian and author of The Wellness Trap and the Substack Rethinking Wellness, knows this firsthand.

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Hall of Fame pitchers Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson and Ted Lyons were much less successful as managers than with a baseball in their hands.

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Christy Leavitt of the nonprofit environmental group Oceana noted that two garbage trucks’ worth of plastic is dumped into oceans every 60 seconds.

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David Pearce, 42, was arrested in November 2021 for his role in the deaths of Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales Arzola after he was caught on camera driving their limp frames to hospitals in a car with no license plates.

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