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nevvy

/ˈnɛvi/

nevvy noun: a nephew.

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 nevvy

pluralnevvies
alternative formnevey
alternative formnevvie
alternative formneffy
alternative formnevy

Origin of nevvy

Possibly from neve and/or nephew + -y, but compare (now mostly obsolete) widespread dialectal forms such as /ˈɑːɡi/, /ˈɑɹɡi/ argy (“argue”) and /ˈvali/, /ˈvæli/ vally (“value”) with /i/ for unstressed standard English /juː/.

Questions about nevvy

What does nevvy mean?
Nevvy means a nephew.
What part of speech is nevvy?
Nevvy is a noun.
How do you pronounce nevvy?
Nevvy is pronounced /ˈnɛvi/.
What is the plural of nevvy?
The plural of nevvy is nevvies.

Words near nevvy in the dictionary

  1. nevus flammeus
  2. nevus flammeus nuchae
  3. nevus lipomatosus superficialis
  4. nevvie
  5. nevvies
  6. nevvy
  7. nevy
  8. nevyanskite
  9. Nevşehir
  10. new
  11. New Abbey

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