Winnie

[ win-ee ]

noun

1. a male given name, form of Winston.
2. a female given name, form of Winifred.

Example Sentences

Sales of its Jibbitz line — which includes plastic charms shaped like cheese boards, rainbows and Winnie-the-Pooh for about $5 a pop — more than doubled in the most recent quarter.

From Washington Post

In 1986 he married Winifred Baxter, who goes by Winnie and partnered with him to start a Meyers Manx club and company of the same name in the 1990s.

From Washington Post

Sharp always wanted to be an actor: his first role, aged 7, was as Piglet in Winnie-The-Pooh.

From The Daily Beast

The signed letter that Winnie got in return, thanking her for the present, was passed around the family with astonished reverence.

From The Daily Beast

Handsome and well-dressed, he was happily in his second marriage, to Winnie, a beautiful and glamorous social worker.

From The Daily Beast

He is survived by his third wife, Graca Machel (his marriage to Winnie ended in divorce in 1996) and three daughters.

From The Daily Beast

His ex-wife Winnie was a “beautiful and charming” woman, with infectious laughter and dazzling star power.

From The Daily Beast

Michael and Alan, even in the dark privacy of their room, did not speak again of Dora and Winnie.

From Project Gutenberg

For Winnie, dark as Kathlyn was light, was as careless and aimless as thistledown in the wind.

From Project Gutenberg

Winnie laughed, and so did Kathlyn, but she did so because occultly she felt that her father expected her to laugh.

From Project Gutenberg

The two girls embraced, and Winnie went sobbing back to the maid who waited on the platform.

From Project Gutenberg

Absorbed in her work, her father and the care of Winnie, such young men as she had met had scarcely interested her.

From Project Gutenberg