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lavy

lavy adjective: lavish; liberal.

Adjective

lavy (comparative lavier or more lavy, superlative laviest or most lavy)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) Lavish; liberal.

Noun

lavy (plural lavies)

  1. A guillemot.

Proper noun capitalized: Lavy

Lavy (plural Lavys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of lavy

Adjective
comparativelavier
comparativemore lavy
superlativelaviest
superlativemost lavy
Noun
plurallavies
Proper noun
pluralLavys

Origin of lavy

From lave (“to pour out, lavish”) + -y.

From Irish lamhaidh, from Old Norse tangvé, langvé. Cognate with Icelandic langvía, lómvia, Faroese lomvigi, Norwegian langve, lomvi. Compare also French lare (“seagull”).

Questions about lavy

What does lavy mean?
Lavy means lavish; liberal.
What part of speech is lavy?
Lavy can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near lavy in the dictionary

  1. lavvus
  2. lavvy
  3. lavvy paper
  4. lavway
  5. lavways
  6. lavy
  7. Lavys
  8. law
  9. law abider
  10. law abiders
  11. law agent

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