Wavy

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈweɪvi/
• Rhymes: -eɪvi

wave + -y

Full definition of wavy

Adjective

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.

See wavey.

Noun

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.