"lavy" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: lavier [comparative], more lavy [comparative], laviest [superlative], most lavy [superlative]
Etymology: From lave (“to pour out, lavish”) + -y. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|lave|y|id2=adjectival|t1=to pour out, lavish}} lave (“to pour out, lavish”) + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er|more}} lavy (comparative lavier or more lavy, superlative laviest or most lavy)
  1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Lavish; liberal. Tags: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal Categories (lifeform): Auks
    Sense id: en-lavy-en-adj-4ynGSkAW Disambiguation of Auks: 59 41 Categories (other): British English, Northern England English, Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 39
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: lavies [plural]
Etymology: From Irish lamhaidh, from Old Norse tangvé, langvé. Cognate with Icelandic langvía, lómvia, Faroese lomvigi, Norwegian langve, lomvi. Compare also French lare (“seagull”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ga|lamhaidh}} Irish lamhaidh, {{der|en|non|tangvé}} Old Norse tangvé, {{m|non|langvé}} langvé, {{cog|is|langvía}} Icelandic langvía, {{m|is|lómvia}} lómvia, {{cog|fo|lomvigi}} Faroese lomvigi, {{cog|no|langve}} Norwegian langve, {{m|no|lomvi}} lomvi, {{cog|fr|lare|t=seagull}} French lare (“seagull”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} lavy (plural lavies)
  1. A guillemot.
    Sense id: en-lavy-en-noun-05VNNejW
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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