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neffy

neffy is the alternative form of nevvy.

Meaning of nevvy

Noun

nevvy (plural nevvies)

  1. (UK, colloquial, dialectal) A nephew.
    • What signifies your sisters’ bits o’ money when they’ve got half-a-dozen nevvies and nieces to divide it among?1860, George Eliot, chapter VI, in The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons
  2. (UK, dialectal) A grandson.

Forms of neffy

pluralneffies

Questions about neffy

What is neffy the alternative form of?
Neffy is the alternative form of nevvy.

Words near neffy in the dictionary

  1. Nefertitian
  2. Nefertum
  3. nefesh
  4. Neff
  5. neffies
  6. neffy
  7. nefiracetam
  8. nefness
  9. nefopam
  10. nefrectomy
  11. nefrotoxicity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: neffy (page history and authors); nevvy (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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