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  • proper noun A diminutive of the female given names Frances and Francine.

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Examples

  • Her Franny is a highly dysfunctional woman on an intensely focused mission.

    George Heymont: Getting Things Off Their Chest (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010

  • Franny is a really good chicken name, and it fits.

    Chicken Update Sarah Lenz 2009

  • The obsessive inventory of the family's apartment in "Franny and Zooey" — there are page-long lists, one of which includes "three radios (a 1927 Freshman, a 1932 Stromberg-Carlson, and a 1941 R.C.A.)" — is not the kind of detail novelists use to capture social or psychological truth.

    February 2010 2010

  • The obsessive inventory of the family's apartment in "Franny and Zooey" — there are page-long lists, one of which includes "three radios (a 1927 Freshman, a 1932 Stromberg-Carlson, and a 1941 R.C.A.)" — is not the kind of detail novelists use to capture social or psychological truth.

    Gratuitous 2010

  • Her Franny is a highly dysfunctional woman on an intensely focused mission.

    George Heymont: Getting Things Off Their Chest (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010

  • Franny is a really good chicken name, and it fits.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Sarah Lenz 2009

  • Her Franny is a highly dysfunctional woman on an intensely focused mission.

    George Heymont: Getting Things Off Their Chest (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010

  • “I don’t suppose you called Franny?” he asked, though I was sure he already knew the answer.

    The Multiplying Menace Amanda Marrone 2010

  • Part of me thought he was right; it would be great to call Franny and sit back and let someone else handle everything.

    The Multiplying Menace Amanda Marrone 2010

  • Her Franny is a highly dysfunctional woman on an intensely focused mission.

    George Heymont: Getting Things Off Their Chest (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010

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