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nevy

nevy 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 nevy

pluralnevies

Questions about nevy

What is nevy the alternative form of?
Nevy is the alternative form of nevvy.

Words near nevy in the dictionary

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

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