nevvy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A nephew. UK,colloquial,dialectal
    — What signifies your sisters’ bits o’ money when they’ve got half-a-dozen nevvies and nieces to divide it among?
  2. A grandson. UK,dialectal

词形变化

nevvies plural nevey alternative nevvie alternative neffy alternative nevy alternative

词源

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/.
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