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Definition: Cavy |
CavyNoun1. Short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cavy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Cavy \Ca"vy\, noun; plural Cavies. [New Latin expression. cavia, from Brazilian cabiai: compare to the French expression cabiai.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Cavy |
| English words defined with "cavy": aperea ♦ Cavia cobaya, Cavia porcellus, Cavies ♦ diverse ♦ guinea pig ♦ Moco ♦ rock cavy ♦ various ♦ Water cavy, wild cavy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cavy": HAVY CAVY. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Driving the cavy to water, Quarter Circle U Ranch, Montana.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Jack Hanna | Oh, yeah. Patagonian cavy. Yeah. But they're an animal not many people see. They kind of hang around swamps and things like that to be near the water and also near vegetation. But they also live in the desert. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expressions using "cavy": rock cavy ♦ water cavy ♦ wild cavy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cavy | 79 | cavy companion | 3 |
breeders cavy | 16 | cavy winking | 3 |
patagonian cavy | 15 | cavy sound | 3 |
cavy cage | 11 | cavy club ontario | 3 |
care cavy | 10 | cavy guinea pig | 3 |
cavy hutches | 8 | cavy picture | 3 |
american association breeders cavy | 7 | cavy show | 3 |
breed cavy | 7 | cavy club | 2 |
baby cavy | 5 | cavy compendium | 2 |
cavy spirit | 5 | cavy peruvian | 2 |
cavy madness | 4 | cavy showmanship | 2 |
cavy rescue | 4 | ||
cavy showmanship | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cavy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | jordskred (debris avalanche, earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, landslip, mud slide, mudslide, slide, slip, slough, soil creep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onvast, losliggend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خوک هندی , ارنب رومی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sortuva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | éboulant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | löcherig (full of holes, holey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταρρέων, καταπίπτων (tumbler), ποντικόσ τησ νότιασ αμερικήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cavia (guinea pig), sprofondante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | muc rangagh (guinea pig). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avycay instável (ambulatory, astatic, baffling, bumpy, changeable, erratum, fickle, incandesce, inconstant, infirm, kid glove, labor, lubricous, mobile home, mutable, off balance, slippery, slippy, temperamental, ticklish, Tippy, tottering, unreliable, unsound, unstable, unsteady, variable, wayward, wonky). (various references) hundimiento (caved goaf, caved waste, caving, collapse, consolidation, downfall, foundering, sag, sagging, settlement, sinkage, sinking, slumping, small landslide, submergence, subsidence), desmoronamiento (decay, raveling, unraveling). (various references) sammanstörtande (collapse), rasande (apoplectic, delirous, enraged, frantic, furious, furiously, irate, ireful, livid, raging, savage, tearing, up in the air, wild), marsvin (guinea pig, guinea-pig). (various references) kobay (guinea pig, subject), güney amerika'ya özgü kobay. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Cavy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avy, cacy, cagy, caiv, caky, cauy, cav, Cavaye, cavey, cavi, cavie, cavo, cavu, cavvy, cawy, caxy, cegy, Chvy, civ, civey, civi, civie, civvy, civy, clavi, covy, cva, cvi, eavy, gavy, Kivy, Mcvay, pavy, xcvi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "cavy" (pronounced 'Ca"vy'): Anchovy, Clavy, Drovy, gravy, IVY, Navvy, Navy, Peavey, Peavy, topsy-turvy, Upsyturvy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-v-y" | |
-1 letter: cay, vac. | |
-2 letters: ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-v-y" | |
+2 letters: cavity. | |
+3 letters: anchovy, calvary, cavally, cavalry, privacy, vacancy, vacuity, valency, vicarly, vocably, vocally. | |
+4 letters: actively, activity, advocacy, cavitary, chivalry, coevally, cravenly, deviancy, sylvatic, vacantly, vagrancy, valiancy, veracity, verdancy, vibrancy, vicenary, vivacity, vocality, voracity. | |
+5 letters: acclivity, acyclovir, captivity, carryover, civically, coevality, concavity, covalency, inviolacy, relevancy, vacuously, vasectomy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 76 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ...- -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a v y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0076 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678891 |
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