princyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Princy

1. (informal, uncommon) A nickname for a prince.
   • 1911, Sidford F[rederick] Hamp, “Lobsterneck”, in Coco Bolo: King of the Floating Islands, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger, →OCLC, page 95:

     As she ran past the throne she espied the King’s crown still hanging to one of the gold knobs. Snatching it down, she raced after the others, and coming under the little Prince, she called out, “Here, Princy, boy! Catch this!”—at the same time throwing up the crown to him.

   • 2005 November 13, Bill Sheppard, “The power of 3”, in alt.astronomy‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 November 2025:

     Princy is lecturing on the virtues of the watered-down or 'moderate' version.

   • 2010, Ching Hai, The Dogs in My Life, Taipei: The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 164:

     This is too “low-grass” for a Princy like me!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Princy.

語源 2

From Prince (“given name”) +‎ -y (adjectival suffix).

形容詞

Princy (comparative Princier, superlative Princiest)

1. (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of the American musician Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson; 1958–2016).

   Synonym: (rare) Princesque

   • 2004 May 5, Manci, “I love this current "comeback" because”, in alt.music.prince‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 November 2025:

     I have to totally (but respectfully) disagree. This is the Princiest Prince record in years... All different styles that somehow sound like they still belong to the same album.

   • 2014 January 27, Alex Goldman, “Prince's Troubled Relationship With the Internet”, in On the Media‎, New York, N.Y.: WNYC Studios, archived from the original on 28 November 2020:

     In a 2010 interview with the Daily Mirror, Prince articulated a dislike of the internet as a whole, explaining why he didn't make his music available online in the Princiest possible fashion.

   • 2025 January 27, u/Over-Cut1311, “What are some songs that Prince didn't write...but sounds like he would have? […]”, in r/PRINCE‎ (Reddit post), archived from the original on 8 November 2025:

     Raphael Saadiq - This world is drunk. Oh man... I thought it WAS Prince from the period where I zoned out only to fall in love with his music again later on. That song and lyrics are so so beautiful and obviously VERY Princy ❤️

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Princy.