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Webster 1913 Edition
Wavy
Wav′y
,Adj.
1.
Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.
“The wavy seas.” Chapman.
2.
Playing to and fro; undulating;
as,
. wavy
flamesLet her glad valleys smile with
wavy
corn. Prior.
3.
(Bot.)
Undulating on the border or surface; waved.
Webster 1828 Edition
Wavy
WAVY
,Adj.
1.
Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves; as the wavy sea.2.
Playing to and fro; undulating.Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn.
3.
Undulating on the border or on the surface; a botanical use.Wawes or waes, for waves. [Not in use.]
Definition 2024
wavy
wavy
English
Adjective
wavy (comparative wavier, superlative waviest)
- Rising or swelling in waves.
- Full of waves.
- Moving to and fro; undulating.
- Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
- (botany, of a margin) Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
- (heraldry) Undé, in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.
Translations
rising or swelling in waves
undulating
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waved
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Etymology 2
See wavey.
Noun
wavy (plural wavies)
- (possibly dated) Alternative form of wavey (goose).
- 1862, in The Zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history, volume 20, page 7835:
- According to Indian report, a great breeding-ground for the blue wavy is the country lying in the interior of the north-east point of Labrador, Cape Dudley Digges.
- 1888, in the Journals of the Senate of Canada, volume 22, Appendix 1, page 237:
- The blue and white wavies breed in the barren grounds and feed chiefly on berries.
- 1862, in The Zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history, volume 20, page 7835: