A name, often a nickname for Benjamin, or used as a character name in literature and media.
Short form of Benjamin, a Hebrew name meaning 'son of the right hand' that has been used in English since biblical times. Benjy became a popular diminutive especially in the 20th century.
Benjy is the name of the main character in William Faulkner's modernist novel 'The Sound and the Fury' (1929)—a groundbreaking book told from the perspective of a cognitively disabled narrator, which was revolutionary for literature at the time.
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