name, today often transferred back from the surname.
name of modern usage.
bevvy
bevvy
noun
(Britain, Ireland, slang) Alcoholic beverage.
verb
(Britain, Ireland, slang, intransitive) To get drunk
bivvy
bivvy
noun
(UK, slang, obsolete) Beer.
(colloquial) A small tent or shelter.
verb
To erect, or to stay in, such a tent or shelter.
bovey
carvy
cavey
chevy
chevy
noun
(countable) A cry used in hunting.
(countable) A hunt or pursuit; a chase.
(uncountable) The game of prisoners' bars.
verb
(intransitive) To scurry.
(transitive) Alternative spelling of chivvy
(transitive) To chase or hunt.
(transitive) To maneuver or secure gradually.
(transitive) To vex or harass with petty attacks.
chivy
chivy
noun
Alternative form of chevy
civvy
civvy
noun
(informal) A civilian; someone who is not in the military.
(prison slang) A manufactured cigarette, as opposed to a rollup.
clavy
clavy
noun
(architecture) A mantelpiece.
clyve
covey
covey
noun
(Britain, slang, dated) A man.
A brood of partridges, grouse, etc.
A group of 8–12 (or more) quail.
A party or group (of persons or things).
Coordinate terms: flock, gaggle, host
verb
(intransitive) To brood; to incubate.
curvy
curvy
adj
(euphemistic, of women) Overweight.
Buxom or curvaceous.
Having curves.
davey
davey
Proper noun
A diminutive of the male given name David.
derived from David.
davys
davys
noun
plural of davy
divvy
divvy
adj
(informal, dated) Divine; very pleasant, wonderful.
noun
(informal) A dividend; a share or portion.
(slang, derogatory) A foolish person.
verb
(informal, transitive) To divide into portions.
dovey
drovy
drovy
Adjective
turbid; muddy; filthy
elvyn
envoy
envoy
noun
(law) A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador.
(poetry) Alternative spelling of envoi (“short stanza at end of poem”)
A diplomat.
A messenger.
A representative.
every
every
det
(with certain nouns) Denotes an abundance of something.
All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.
garvy
givey
gravy
gravy
noun
(Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.
(uncountable, India, Singapore) Curry sauce.
(uncountable, chiefly Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta.
(uncountable, informal) Extra benefit.
(uncountable, informal) Unearned gain.
A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
verb
To make gravy.
grovy
grovy
adj
Pertaining to or characterised by groves; situated in a grove.
gyved
gyved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gyve
gyves
gyves
noun
plural of gyve
halvy
heavy
heavy
adj
(Britain, slang, dated) Good.
(aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload,
(dated, late 1960s, 1970s, US) Profound.
(finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
(nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
(obsolete) With child; pregnant.
(of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
(of a physical object) Having great weight.
(of a rate of flow) High, great.
(of a topic) Serious, somber.
(of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
(of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
(of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
(of weather) Hot and humid.
(of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
(petroleum) Having high viscosity.
(physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
(slang) Armed.
Having the heaves.
Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
Laden to a great extent.
Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
Not raised or leavened.
Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
especially, having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
adv
(India, colloquial) very
(colloquial, nonstandard) To a great degree; greatly.
In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
noun
(aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
(journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
(slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
verb
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
(often with "up") To make heavier.
To sadden.
hovey
invoy
ivory
ivory
adj
Made of ivory.
Resembling or having the colour of ivory.
noun
(collective, singular or in plural) The keys of a piano.
(collective, singular or in plural) The teeth.
(informal) A die (object bearing numbers, thrown in games of chance).
(slang) A white person.
(uncountable) The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
A creamy white color, the color of ivory.
Something made from or resembling ivory.
ivray
jarvy
jarvy
noun
Alternative form of jarvey
keavy
keavy
Proper noun
name used in Ireland and Scotland.
kevyn
kevyn
Proper noun
name, a rare spelling variant of Kevin.
leavy
leavy
adj
Archaic form of leafy.
levey
livvy
livvy
Proper noun
A diminutive of the female given name Olivia.
lovey
lovey
noun
(UK) An informal mode of address (associated most often with actors and the like).
A baby's toy, blanket, or other object of affection
marvy
marvy
adj
(colloquial) great, awesome, brilliant
navvy
navvy
noun
(chiefly Britain) A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad.
verb
(Britain, intransitive) To carry out physical labor on a civil engineering project.
nervy
nervy
adj
(Britain) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.
(US) Having nerve; bold; brazen.
(archaic) Strong; sinewy.
(technical) jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.
nevoy
ovary
ovary
noun
(anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
(botany) The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit.
peavy
peavy
noun
A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end.
privy
privy
adj
(now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
(now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.
With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
noun
(law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
revay
salvy
savey
savoy
savoy
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Savoy (“type of cabbage”)
savvy
savvy
adj
(informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
noun
(informal) Shrewdness.
verb
(informal) To understand.
scovy
seavy
seavy
adj
(UK, dialect) overgrown with rushes
senvy
senvy
noun
(obsolete) The mustard plant or its seed.
shivy
sievy
skivy
snivy
stevy
stivy
stivy
adj
(UK, dialect) close; stuffy; stifling
sylva
sylva
noun
Alternative spelling of silva
tavey
tavoy
tavoy
Proper noun
A city in southern Burma.
tovey
turvy
vairy
vairy
adj
(heraldry, of a field or charge) Divided into vair-bells of two or more tinctures.
vally
vally
noun
Obsolete spelling of valley
valmy
valry
valyl
valyl
noun
(organic chemistry) The univalent radical derived from valine.
vanny
vanya
vardy
vasty
vasty
adj
(archaic, literary) vast
vasya
vaudy
vealy
vealy
adj
Immature.
Resembling veal.
veery
veery
noun
An American thrush (Catharus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada.
vefry
veily
veily
adj
translucent, diaphanous
veiny
veiny
adj
Having prominent veins.
veray
verby
verby
adj
Having the characteristics of a verb.
verey
verny
verry
verry
adj
Obsolete spelling of very
verty
vesty
vevay
vevay
Proper noun
a town in Indiana, USA, and the county seat of Switzerland County.
vichy
vicky
vicky
Proper noun
name, also used as a formal given name.
vidry
vidya
vidya
noun
(Internet slang) Video games.
viewy
viewy
adj
(colloquial, now rare) Superficially attractive; showy.
(now rare) Having strong views or opinions.
vigny
vikky
vikky
Proper noun
name, form of
vinny
vinny
adj
(obsolete, UK, dialect) vinewed, mouldy
vinyl
vinyl
adj
(chemistry) Containing the vinyl radical.
(music) Pertaining to a phonograph record.
Made of polyvinyl chloride.
noun
(chemistry, uncountable) The univalent radical CH₂=CH−, derived from ethylene.
(countable) Any of various compounds and substances containing the vinyl radical, especially various tough, flexible, shiny plastics.
(music, collectively, uncountable) Phonograph records as a medium.
(music, countable) A phonograph record.
virgy
visby
vitry
vizzy
volny
vonny
vuggy
vuggy
adj
(geology) Containing vugs.
vyase
vycor
vying
vying
noun
The act of one who vies; rivalry.
verb
present participle of vie
vyner
wavey
wavey
noun
(US, Canada, dialects) The snow goose (Chen caerulescens)