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vervy

adj

Etymology

From verve + -y.

  1. derived from *werh₁-✻ — “to say, speak”
  2. derived from verba — “words; discourse; expressions; language”
  3. derived from verva
  4. borrowed from verve — “animation; caprice, whim; rapture; spirit; vigour; type of expression”
  5. suffixed as vervy — “verve + y”

Definitions

  1. Full of verve.

    • The memoir's occasion is frequently quite simple: this is a good story to tell, with lively characters given a vervy charge by having actually existed.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA