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lave | fave |

As a proper noun lave

is .

As an adjective fave is

(informal) favorite (us) or favourite (uk).

As a noun fave is

(informal) favorite (us) or favourite (uk).

lave

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(lav)
  • (obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
  • (Dryden)
  • To draw, as water; drink in.
  • To give bountifully; lavish.
  • To run down or gutter, as a candle.
  • (dialectal) To hang or flap down.
  • (ambitransitive, archaic) To wash.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • In her chaste current oft the goddess laves .
  • * 1789 , William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from Fourteen Sonnets , 1789.
  • the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.
  • * 2006 , Cormac McCarthy, The Road , London: Picador, 2007, p. 38.
  • The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 12.
  • Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight.
  • * 1896 (posthumously), Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel and other verses .[https://archive.org/details/songsoftraveloth00stevrich]
  • Give to me the life I love,/Let the lave go by me...

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    fave

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fav

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK).
  • * 2010 September, , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 8:
  • At stlmag.com this month
  • *:* Select articles from this issue
  • *:* An editors' podcast
  • *:* A Google Map of our Best Dressed winners' fave shops
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK)
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