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nevey

nevey 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.

Questions about nevey

What is nevey the alternative form of?
Nevey is the alternative form of nevvy.

Words near nevey in the dictionary

  1. neves
  2. neves to rouf
  3. Nevett
  4. Neveu
  5. Neveus
  6. nevey
  7. Neve‘ei
  8. nevi
  9. Nevi'im
  10. nevies
  11. Neviim

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