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Emmy

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈɛmi//

A diminutive of Emily, Emma, Emmeline or Amelia, also used as a female given name.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of Emily, Emma, Emmeline or Amelia, also used as a female given name.

    There was a buxom Irish servant-girl, who […] had […] striven to give Amelia aid or consolation. Emmy was much too sad to answer, or even to be aware of the attempts the other was making in her favour.

Etymology

Shortening.

noun

  1. 1

    An award given for artistic excellence in television productions.

Etymology

Chosen as a feminine-sounding derivation of immy, a nickname for the image orthicon tubes used in early television cameras.

Forms

plural
Emmys
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).