Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Nephew.
- n. A male cousin.
- n. A grandson.
- n. rare A spendthrift.
Etymologies
- From Middle English neve, neave, from Old English nefa ("nephew, grandson"), from Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew”), from Proto-Indo-European *nepoter-, *nepo- (“grandchild, sister's son”). Cognate with West Frisian neef ("cousin, nephew"), Dutch neef ("nephew"), Low German neve ("nephew"), German Neffe ("nephew"), Icelandic nefi ("kinsman"). Compare nift. See also nephew. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A neve is a snow field at the head of a glacier that has yet to become compacted into glacier ice.”
“The consolidated snow is called neve, the grains of which are one-twenty-fifth to one hundredth of an inch in diameter, and, en masse, present a dazzling white appearance on account of the air spaces which occupy one-third to one-half of the whole.”
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
“Esquire is made for white color people who would neve in a thousand years think of gettin their hands dirty.”
“I believe it is true because I have had some instances where I have seen a humogous bass in this lake, yet have neve caught him.”
“Great tasting fish, Ive neve cooked them any way other than breaded and fried.”
“It will neve happen but Andy Stern should be tried fro crimes against the nation. kevin tx”
“But it would neve had been necessary if the DC folks had been wise enough to call in the experts up here in NYC. —”
Bush Declares State of Emergency for Inauguration - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“If I get bored or annoyed half-way through, I have no qualms to put the book down and neve pick it up again.”
“We have already seen what the party of NO wants for the people and it's neve.”
McConnell signals end to GOP filibuster of Wall Street reform bill
“You neve can tell, you might even pull up a big bass or a slow worked top water!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘neve’.
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Bébé to Zeze
A more narrow version of *e?e by pterodactyl, this one is ?e?e.
nese, were, rete, tele, sene, deme, dere, meme, rese, here, jefe, rede and 131 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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Greg's Words
frippet, furtive, gimcrack, indefatigable, vicissitudes, pedant, ziggurat, susurrus, sub rosa, rodomontade, interregnum, abscise and 168 more...
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Next!
salvific, redemptive, salvic, roil, changeling, barrow, burro, sow, swath, haymow, shock, sheaves and 190 more...
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Flying Into Snow
Snow-related words.
I love snow. Send me as much as you can.snow, flake, flurry, sastruga, slush, powder, blizzard, snowman, whiteout, sleet, sneg, salju and 75 more...
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hibernacle
eventide, bedtime, gloaming, vespertine, sable-vested, witching hour, winter garden, pinery, windchill, snowdrift, hail, rime and 14 more...
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Dutchly things
Words having some sort of Dutch origin, probably boring to everyone but me — I'm currently browsing 2,422 entries having "Dutch" in their definitions/etymologies, the best of which should fin...
mynheerify, mynheer, advocaat, dutch bargain, blauwbok, butter-box, quardeel, clinquant, closh, coot, dodkin, dorp and 85 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for neve.
bilby Italian - snow. Aug 6, 2008
oroboros Even in reverse. Jul 22, 2007