Nancy Dawson

English en Etymology Likely taken from the stage name of eighteenth-century dancer and actress Nancy Dawson Ann Newton. Noun en slang derogatory A homosexual man, especially one who is regarded as effeminate. en 1974 Michael Tyler-Whittle Bertie https://archive.org/details/bertiealbertedwa00tyle 250 Though harmless and gentle he would have been described as a Greek or a Uranist by the exquisites of Cambridge, or as a Nancy Dawson by everyone else.