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English
Etymology 1
Noun
Novy (plural Novies)
- (slang) A person from Nova Scotia.
1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:"Shrimp! Gloucester shrimp! Git aout, you Novy!"
To call a Gloucester man a Nova Scotian is not well received. Dan answered in kind.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Novy (plural Novys)
- A surname.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Novy is the 19885th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1351 individuals. Novy is most common among White (94.3%) individuals.