Usually means: Effeminate man in old slang.
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  1. nance: Merriam-Webster
  2. nance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nance: Collins English Dictionary
  4. nance: Vocabulary.com
  5. Nance, nance: Wordnik
  6. Nance, nance: Wiktionary
  7. nance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. nance: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. nance: Dictionary.com
  10. nance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Nance (disambiguation), Nance (film), Nance (surname), The Nance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. nance: Rhymezone
  13. nance: FreeDictionary.org
  14. nance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. nance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nance: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NANCe: Acronym Finder

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. nance, nance, nance: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Nance: Urban Dictionary
  3. Nance: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Nance)

noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Nancy.
noun:  A Cornish surname.
noun:  (derogatory) nancyboy
verb:  To act in an effeminate manner.
verb:  (uncommon, slang) To move in a prissy or stereotypically effeminate manner.
noun:  A large shrub or small tree of subtropical and tropical areas of the Americas, Byrsonima crassifolia, bearing a small, sweet, yellow fruit.
noun:  (slang) Alternative form of nancy (“an effeminate male homosexual”) [(British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, US, derogatory, slang, offensive) An effeminate man, especially a homosexual.]

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