英和和英

語源

Mary +‎ Ann

固有名詞

Mary Ann

1. A female given name from Hebrew.
   • 1979, Alison Lurie, Only Children, Random House, →ISBN, page 12:

     She doesn't like being called after Mother Hubbard, who is an old woman in a baby bonnet, even more than she doesn't like to be called Honoria. "That name practically ruined mah entire childhood," she said once. "Ah wanted to make darn sure Ah gave mah little girl a name nobody in creation could make fun of."
     But she hasn't. 'Mary Ann, Mary Ann, washed her face in a frying pan,' they sang at her on the playground at recess. Soon as she grows up she is going to change it to another one, sort of like it, but nicer, more like books: Marian, or Marianne. Or maybe Miranda.

   • 2013 June 17, Victoria Rose, The Princess and the Devil‎^[1], Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, OCLC 1124536210, page 20:

     The entire family fell in love with Mary Ann, holding her, playing peek-a-boo until she would laugh so loudly. The snow had been falling for several days, and it was blistering cold. Our family didn't own an automobile, but Daddy sat  […]

2. (UK, historical) An imaginary character to whom the Sheffield Outrages were attributed.

参照

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

別の表記

• Mary Ann
• Mary Anne

固有名詞

Maryann

1. A female given name.

参考

• Marian
• Mariana
• Marianne