wavy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈweɪvi/

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• Rhymes: -eɪvi

Etymology 1

wave +‎ -y

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

rising or swelling in waves

• Finnish: aaltoileva (fi), vellova (fi)
• French: ondulant (fr)
• Maori: pūngarungaru

• Romanian: unduios (ro)
• Spanish: ondulante (es), ondeante (es)
• Swedish: vågig (sv)

full of waves

• Finnish: aaltoinen (fi)
• Maori: pūngarungaru
• Middle English: crisp
• Romanian: unduios (ro)

• Spanish: undoso (es)
• Swedish: vågig (sv)
• Turkish: dalgalı (tr)

undulating

• Finnish: aaltoileva (fi), vellova (fi)
• French: ondulant (fr)
• Maori: pūngarungaru

• Russian: коле́блющийся (ru) (kolébljuščijsja)
• Spanish: ondulatorio (es)
• Swedish: vågig (sv)
• Turkish: dalgalı (tr)

waved

• Finnish: aaltoinen (fi)
• French: ondulé (fr)
• Irish: dréimreach (of hair)
• Maori: māwhai (refers to hair), kapu māhora (referring to hair), kapu māhora (referring to hair)

• Russian: волни́стый (ru) (volnístyj), волнообра́зный (ru) (volnoobráznyj)
• Spanish: ondulado (es)
• Swedish: vågig (sv)
• Turkish: dalgalı (tr)
• Ukrainian: хвиля́стий (xvyljástyj)

botany

• Finnish: aaltoileva (fi)

heraldry

• French: ondé (fr) m
• German: Wellenschnitt m

• Italian: ondato (it) m
• Spanish: ondado m

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Translations to be checked

• Japanese: くねくねした (kunekune shita), ウエーブのかかった (uēbu no kakatta)

Etymology 2

See wavey.

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.