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nevvy

noun
/ˈnɛvi/

Etymology

Possibly from neve and/or nephew + -y, but compare (now mostly obsolete) widespread dialectal forms such as /ˈɑːɡi/, /ˈɑɹɡi/ argy (“argue”) and /ˈvali/, /ˈvæli/ vally (“value”) with /i/ for unstressed standard English /juː/.

  1. derived from *népōts✻ — “grandchild, sister's son”
  2. derived from *nepōts✻ — “nephew, grandson”
  3. derived from nepos
  4. derived from neveu
  5. inherited from nevew
  6. formed as nevvy — “nephew + -y”

Definitions

  1. A nephew.

    • What signifies your sisters’ bits o’ money when they’ve got half-a-dozen nevvies and nieces to divide it among?

  2. A grandson.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nevvy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA