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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA diminutive of the male given names Robert, Ricky, Rocco, Roch, and Rock. · Diminutive of Rock (“surname”). · nickame for a boxer, after Rocky Balboa, a fictional boxer in a series of films. · The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a motion picture.
Diminutives with -y.
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