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  • proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Martin.
  • proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Martha or, less commonly, of Martina.

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Examples

  • UPPERDATE: It's been a bit of a time back-channel, but I must, it seems, make a partial retraction, having ascertained that "Marty" is another person entirely, with his own Facebook page, bio and address.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Obama has either left Galluzzo out of Dreams altogether or combined Galluzzo’s character with Jerry Kellman under the name Marty Kaufman.5 Obama biographer David Remnick says that “for the most part” Jerry Kellman is “Marty.”

    Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010

  • Obama has either left Galluzzo out of Dreams altogether or combined Galluzzo’s character with Jerry Kellman under the name Marty Kaufman.5 Obama biographer David Remnick says that “for the most part” Jerry Kellman is “Marty.”

    Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010

  • The name Marty Rogers hadn’t meant anything to him until he saw the fair-haired woman with the lively face and those glittering gray-green eyes.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • The name Marty Rogers hadn’t meant anything to him until he saw the fair-haired woman with the lively face and those glittering gray-green eyes.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • The name Marty Rogers hadn’t meant anything to him until he saw the fair-haired woman with the lively face and those glittering gray-green eyes.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • The name Marty Rogers hadn’t meant anything to him until he saw the fair-haired woman with the lively face and those glittering gray-green eyes.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • "In that regard, Marty is a dinosaur," Resch said.

    Martin Brodeur exemplifies evolution of NHL goaltender 2009

  • The New Jersey Devils would not only survive, but actually thrive, in Marty Brodeur's absence.

    The only sure NHL prediction: There always will be surprises 2009

  • Judging from that glance up his shorts (which I only reran four times to get the quotes right), Marty is not "too cocky," although his overconfidence is well endowed.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty Tallulah Morehead 2010

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