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yevery, a. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈjɛvərɪ|
Forms: 6, 9 yevery, 8 aevery, 9 yeovery, e(e)very, aiverie.
[f. yever a. + -y1.]
Greedy, voracious.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 272 Utheris, quhilkis war mair yevery and tume. 17..Dick o the Cow xxv. in Child Ballads (1889) III. 465 The lads, that hungry and aevery was. 1825Jamieson, Aiverie, adj., very hungry, Roxb.; a term nearly obsolete. 1847Halliwell, Yeovery, hungry. Northumb.
Hence ˈyevrisome a., ravenously greedy.
1825Jamieson, Yevrisome, having an appetite habitually craving, Dumfr. |