Mary Ann

Maryann English Alternative forms en Maryann Mary Anne Etymology From en Mary Ann. Proper noun en female Hebrew. en 1979 w:Alison Lurie Only Children 12 Random House 0394504712 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. en https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=k7DWF3FAFiAC&pg=PA20&dq=+SHE+PLAYED+peek+a+boo+until+ The Princess and the Devil Victoria Rose Xlibris Corporation 9781483643441 1124536210 2013-06-17 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  en UK historical An imaginary character to whom the Sheffield Outrages were attributed. References en 1873 John Camden Hotten The Slang Dictionary