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Marty

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈmɑɹti//

A diminutive of the male given names Martin or Marten.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given names Martin or Marten.

    'Martin', Martin said. 'Marty', she said, smiling at him. He didn't correct her mistake. No one had ever called him Marty before. He liked the way 'Marty' seemed a more entertaining man than he knew himself to be.

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the female given name Martha, or less often, of Martina.

Etymology

From Martin + -y.

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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).