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[edit]Etymology 1
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Adjective
[edit]wavy (comparative wavier, superlative waviest)
- rising or swelling in waves.
- wavy seas
- Full of waves.
- wavy swimming pool
- Moving to and fro; undulating.
- wavy bridge
- Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
- wavy hair
- (botany, of a margin) Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
- (heraldry) Undé, in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines, especially to symbolize a river.
- 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland: Forming an Extensive Ordinary of British Armorials; Upon an Entirely New Plan ..., page 708:
- Per pale erm. and az. a fess wavy gu.
- 1893, James Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, page 105:
- Parted per fess wavy gu. and arg.; over all a lion passant sa. pierced with a dagger ppr., hafted and pommelled of the second, the haft appearing between the shoulders and the point under the belly, tending towards the hind legs […]
- (slang) Drunk.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]rising or swelling in waves
full of waves
undulating
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waved
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botany
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heraldry: undé, in a wavy line
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slang: drunk
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Etymology 2
[edit]See wavey.
Noun
[edit]wavy (plural wavies)
- (possibly dated) Alternative form of wavey (goose).
- 1862, The Zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history, volume 20, page 7835:
- According to Indian report, a great breeding-ground for the blue wavy is the country lying in the interior of the north-east point of Labrador, Cape Dudley Digges.
- 1888, Journals of the Senate of Canada, volume 22, Appendix 1, page 237:
- The blue and white wavies breed in the barren grounds and feed chiefly on berries.
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