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jarvie

jarvie is the alternative form of jarvey.

Meaning of jarvey

Noun

jarvey (plural jarvies or jarveys)

  1. (dated) A hackney coach driver .
  2. (Ireland) The driver of a jaunting car.
    • […] Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad, would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas to draw the long bow about the schooner Hesperus and etcetera.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 16

Proper noun capitalized: Jarvie

Jarvie

  1. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
  2. A surname

Forms of jarvie

pluraljarvies

Questions about jarvie

What does jarvie mean?
Jarvie means a hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
What is jarvie the alternative form of?
Jarvie is the alternative form of jarvey.
What part of speech is jarvie?
Jarvie is a proper noun.

Words near jarvie in the dictionary

  1. jarul
  2. jaruls
  3. jarvey
  4. jarveys
  5. Jarvi
  6. jarvie
  7. jarvies
  8. Jarvis
  9. Jarvis Creek
  10. Jarvis Island
  11. jarvy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jarvie (page history and authors); Jarvie (page history and authors); jarvey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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