wavy

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈweɪvi/

Adjective

wavy (comparative wavier, superlative waviest)

1. rising or swelling in waves.
2. Full of waves.
3. Moving to and fro; undulating.
4. Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
5. (botany, of a margin) Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
6. (heraldry) Undé, in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.
7. (slang) drunk

Translations

• French: ondulant
• Spanish: ondulante, ondeante

Translations

• Spanish: undoso

Translations

• French: ondulant
• Russian: коле́блющийся
• Spanish: ondulatorio

Translations

• French: ondulé
• Russian: волни́стый
• Spanish: ondulado

Translations

• French: ondé
• German: Wellenschnitt
• Italian: ondato
• Spanish: ondado

Noun

wavy (plural wavies)

1. (possibly dated) Alternative form of wavey (goose).
   • 1862, in 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, in the 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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