voicy

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English

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Etymology

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voice +‎ -y

Adjective

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voicy (comparative more voicy, superlative most voicy)

  1. Relating to the voice, or using the voice; vocal.
    • 1919, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, page 72:
      Gar is a most important Indo-European word, and the primary meaning is sound or voice, and the term was applied to this lake by the Mairtine because it is a voicy lake.
    • 1983, Howard White, Raincoast Chronicles Six/ten, page 144:
      It was a while before he found himself there, with a voicy sigh of satisfaction.
    • 1999, Robert Bechtold Heilman, The Professor and the Profession, page 39:
      [] a long narrow board on which a small moving sphere, like a counter on an abacus, denoted visually the location of the ball while the plays were announced in bunches by a voicy man with a megaphone.

Middle French

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Etymology

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vois +‎ cy

Adverb

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voicy

  1. here

Descendants

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  • French: voici