Norrie

English

Proper noun

Norrie

1. A diminutive form of the female given names Noreen, Norette, and Lenore.
2. A diminutive form of the male given name Norman.

Noun

Norrie (countable and uncountable, plural Norries)

1. (Ireland, slang, countable) A person from the north side of Cork City, Ireland.
2. (medicine, uncountable) A genetic X-linked recessive disease that primarily affects the eye and leads to blindness.
   • 2014, Alastair Denniston, Philip Murray, Oxford Handbook of Ophthalmology, →ISBN, page 814:

     Retinal dysplasia may occur in isolation but is usually part of a syndrome such as Edwards, Patau, Norrie, Walker–Warburg, or incontinentia pigmenti.

Anagrams

• Renoir, ironer