English Explanatory Dictionary

Gentle Annie

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A long uphill road or trail without a resting place.
  2. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Word forms

Gentle Annie Gentle Annies

Etymology

Possibly related to the Celtic goddess Anann (an aspect of the Mórrígan responsible, among other things, for culling weak cattle) or to the Stephen Foster song Gentle Annie (1856).

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