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   nancy story

   noun

   • 1. a traditional African folk tale about Anancy the spider, who overcomes others by cunning. West Indian
   • ▪ an elaborate evasive story or lie: West Indian "the minister had left the country and so could not give his side of the nancy story"
   • ▪ a superstitious belief: West Indian "God is a nancy story, you hear"

   Word Origin nancy, shortening of Anancy, from Akan ananse ‘spider’.

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