Andy
A diminutive of the male given name Andrew, from Ancient Greek.
Proper noun
- A diminutive of the male given name Andrew, from Ancient Greek.
- "Irina? Call me 'Andy,' please." "I think that I would rather call you 'Andrew'." This was flattering, somehow. For everyone I knew called me "Andy"―a name comfortable as an old sneaker. There was dignity in "Andrew,"...
- But Andy and Ben, they are lovers, not fighters … and they are going the battered sav. - 2016 September 11, Emily Power, “Main bathroom reveals on The Block: hold on for the bathroom without a toot”, in Domain News:
- Chili’s has also enlisted several actors from “The Office” to star in the ads, including Melora Hardin (Jan Levinson), Andy Buckley (David Wallace), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone) and Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer)....
- A surname.
Origin
Clipping of Andrew + -y.
Forms
Derived
Proper noun Entry 2
- A diminutive of the female given name Andrea, from Ancient Greek.
Origin
Clipping of Andrea + -y.
Forms
Noun
- A streamer on live streaming service Twitch.
- trump is now a react andy like myself - 2020 October 26, Hasan Piker, Twitter:
- dream stans pulling out the "he has adhd" card to hasan fucking piker the biggest adhd andy on twitch it's so funny - 2021 June 4, anaxchu, Twitter:
- Why is this video going viral? 500k views almost on my Twitch channel 😂It's not even funny Oh hello LSF andy's 👋 - 2022 October 3, shylilytwitch, Twitter:
- A person of any particular kind.
- VS Code Andy
Origin
Originates from the live streams of IRL streamer Ice Poseidon on the live streaming service Twitch in early 2017; comedian and actor Andy Milonakis frequently appeared on Ice Poseidon's streams before being supplemented by one Andy Martin, who was given the byname "Mexican Andy" to distinguish him from Milonakis—himself dubbed "Sitting Andy" in June. Subsequently, Ice Poseidon and his audience began referring to people who appeared on his streams by the name Andy and the term spread to other channels on Twitch by late 2017 as a generic name for any Twitch streamer.