TANTIVY

Definition: TANTIVY

TANTIVY

Adverb

1. Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy.

Intransitive verb

1. To go away in haste.

Noun

1. A rapid, violent gallop; an impetuous rush.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TANTIVY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

Velocity

Adverb: swiftly; Adjective: with speed; Noun: apace; at a great rate, at full speed, at railway speed; full drive, full gallop; posthaste, in full sail, tantivy; trippingly; instantaneously.

Crosswords: TANTIVY

Albanian

me shpejtësi (post, promptly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стремглаво, стремглав (breathless, meteoric, precipitate), галопирам (gallop), ловен зов, препускане (scurry), препускам (course, fly, hump, race, rip, scurry, spur). (various references)

Hungarian

vágtában (at full tilt, full tilt), gyors (agile, current sale, expedite, expeditious, expenditious, expidite, express, facile, fast, fleet, flighty, hasty, high speed, hit and run, laxity, nimble, nimble-footed, nippy, presto, prompt, quick, quick as thought, rapid, rash, ready, snap, spanking, speedy, sudden, swift). (various references)

Pig Latin

antivytay.(various references)

Portuguese

velozmente (fast, quick, quickly), veloz (arrowy, clipping, fast, nimble, quick, rapid, speedy, swift, swift-handed, winged), rapidamente (amain, apace, chop-chop, fast, holus-bolus, hotfoot, on the double, promptly, pronto, quick, quickly, readily, soon, speedily, swiftly), rápido (active, clear-sighted, crisp, double-quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, light-legged, nimble, nippy, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, riffle, speedy, sudden, swift, swift-handed, tripping, volant, winged), movimento rápido (fast motion, jogging), grito de caça, galope (gallop, gallopade, galop, lope, pelt, scamper), corrida (career, chevy, course, foot race, march, race, racing, run, running), a galope. (various references)

Russian 

вскачь, быстрый (agile, expedite, expeditious, fast, fast-moving, fleet, flying, hasty, light, lively, nimble, prompt, quick, rapid, rath, rathe, sharpish, slippy, smart, snappy, spanking, speedy, straightaway, swift, winged, wing-footed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

velikom brzinom, brzo (apace, fast, make it snappy, promptly, pronto, quickly, rapidly, speedily, trippingly), brz (cursory, expeditious, fast, fleet, high speed, nippy, prompt, quick, rapid, repartee, spanking, speedy, swift, tripping). (various references)

Turkish

dörtnala gitme (gallop), dörtnala (at a gallop), av narası, alelacele (hastily, hurriedly, in a hurry, posthaste, urgently), acele gitme. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: vanity.

-2 letters: natty, nitty, taint, titan, vitta.

-3 letters: anti, ayin, navy, tain, tint, tiny, tivy, tyin, vain, vina, viny, vita.

-4 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, any, att, ivy, nay, nit, tan, tat, tav, tin, van, vat, via, yin.

-5 letters: ai, an, at, ay, in, it, na, ta, ti, ya.

+1 letter: nativity.

+3 letters: inactivity, invitatory, negativity.

+4 letters: antigravity, antipoverty, attentively, eventuality, tentatively, travestying, ventilatory.

+5 letters: intravitally, inveterately, transitively, transitivity, voluntaryist.