covey
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Is covey a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension)Examples: "Like when you quail huntin' and it's getting dark and you can hear the boss bird whistlin' tryin' to get the covey together again, and he's coming toward you slow and whistlin' soft, cause he knows you somewhere around with your gun."; "No sooner had I spoken than a covey of perhaps twenty birds flushed wild ahead of us and disappeared into the pine woods. […] Just the slamming of a car door, too much talking, or a fast-moving dog will cause a covey to flush well out of gun range."broadly
2. (by extension)Examples: "[T]here is not a better Spanniell in England to spring a couie of queanes than Martin."; "VVho are they in the corner? As I live, / A covey of Fidlers; I ſhall have ſome muſicke yet […]"; "I never did ſpring ſuch a Covye of Mathematicians all at once, as I met vvith at this time, Cervinus or Hart, Cure, John Stacy and Blach, all bred in Merton Colledge."broadlyfiguratively
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To gather into a group.Examples: "Our fortunes and our ſelves, are things ſo cloſely linked, that vve knovv not vvhich is the cauſe of the love that vve finde, vvhen theſe tvvo ſhall part, vve may then diſcover to vvhich of them affection vvill make vvinge; vvhen they are covied together vve knovv not vvhich is in purſuit; vvhen they riſe and breake, vve ſhall then ſee vvhich is aimed at."; "O'er many a vvinding dale and painful ſteep, / Th' abodes of coveyed grouſe and timid ſheep, / My ſavage journey, curious, I purſue, / Till fam'd Breadalbaine opens on my view.— […]"; "The lapwing's covied tribes forsake / The fens, to seek the glassy lake."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (British, familiar, slang, dated) A male person, a man; a chap, a chappie.Examples: "I don't know what would become of these here young chaps, if it wasn't for such careful old coveys as we are— […]"; "Hullo! my covey, what's the row?"; "'Pooh!' said he, 'you are as easily wounded as an unfledged dove—don't mind what an old covey like me says—I understand it all.'"Synonyms: bloke, cove, fellow, guy, bloke, boy, bro, broskiBritishdatedfamiliarslang
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