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- proper noun A
diminutive of the femalegiven names Frances andFrancine .
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Examples
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Her Franny is a highly dysfunctional woman on an intensely focused mission.
George Heymont: Getting Things Off Their Chest (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Franny is a really good chicken name, and it fits.
Chicken Update Sarah Lenz 2009
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The obsessive inventory of the family's apartment in "Franny and Zooey" — there are page-long lists, one of which includes "three radios (a 1927 Freshman, a 1932 Stromberg-Carlson, and a 1941 R.C.A.)" — is not the kind of detail novelists use to capture social or psychological truth.
February 2010 2010
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The obsessive inventory of the family's apartment in "Franny and Zooey" — there are page-long lists, one of which includes "three radios (a 1927 Freshman, a 1932 Stromberg-Carlson, and a 1941 R.C.A.)" — is not the kind of detail novelists use to capture social or psychological truth.
Gratuitous 2010
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Her Franny is a highly dysfunctional woman on an intensely focused mission.
George Heymont: Getting Things Off Their Chest (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Franny is a really good chicken name, and it fits.
Archive 2009-04-01 Sarah Lenz 2009
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Her Franny is a highly dysfunctional woman on an intensely focused mission.
George Heymont: Getting Things Off Their Chest (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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“I don’t suppose you called Franny?” he asked, though I was sure he already knew the answer.
The Multiplying Menace Amanda Marrone 2010
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Part of me thought he was right; it would be great to call Franny and sit back and let someone else handle everything.
The Multiplying Menace Amanda Marrone 2010
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Her Franny is a highly dysfunctional woman on an intensely focused mission.
George Heymont: Getting Things Off Their Chest (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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