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Wavey vs Wavy - What's the difference?

wavey | wavy |

Wavy is a alternative form of wavey.



As nouns the difference between wavey and wavy

is that wavey is either of two North American wild geese of the genus Chen, the snow goose (white wavy) or the blue goose (blue wavy) while wavy is alternative form of lang=en goose.

As an adjective wavy is

rising or swelling in waves.

wavey

English

Alternative forms

* wavy

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, Canada, dialects) Either of two North American wild geese of the genus Chen , the snow goose (white wavy) or the blue goose (blue wavy).

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    wavy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Rising or swelling in waves.
  • Full of waves.
  • Moving to and fro; undulating.
  • Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
  • (botany, of a margin) Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
  • (heraldry) , in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.

    • Etymology 2

    See wavey .

    Noun

    (wavies)
  • (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.