English Explanatory Dictionary

Wendy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A female given name.
noun
  1. A wuss; someone who is particularly cowardly.

Pronunciation

/ˈwɛn.di/ /ˈwɪndi/ En-au-wendy.ogg

Word forms

Wendy wendies

Etymology

Popularized by the character in J. M. Barrie's play, Peter Pan (1904) (though occasionally found earlier; the author explained that he got it from Fwendy-Wendy ("friend"), a nickname given to him by a child. Alternatively, from a diminutive of the Welsh Gwendolen; or from Wendelin, a diminutive of Wendel; therefore a doublet of Gwen. A habitational forename meaning, "island at the river bend", from Old English wende (“watercourse with a bend”) + ēġ (“island”).

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