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ravey

adj
/ˈɹeɪvi/

Etymology

From rave + -y.

  1. derived from *webʰ-✻ — “to move, swarm, waft”
  2. derived from *wab(b)ōną✻ — “to sway, waver, swing, shake, wobble, totter, reel, careen”
  3. derived from ráfa — “to wander, roam”
  4. inherited from raven
  5. suffixed as ravey — “rave + y”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of rave music or culture.

    • Smokey Joe's Bad Boy EP (1993) followed suit with an explicitly funky, rather than ravey, feel […]
    • […] he couldn't see the end of the human sea: before him were twenty-five thousand people in fluo, stripey ravey gear.

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