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Mavis

//ˈmeɪvɪs// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from English.

    ""Rather an odd name, Mavis, isn't it?" I at last ventured to observe. "Yes, - but it suits her wonderfully. She sings quite as sweetly as any thrush, so she merits her designation.""

Noun
  1. 1
    song thrush poetic

    "At midnight the moon cometh, / And looketh down alone; / Her song the lintwhite swelleth, / The clear voiced mavis dwelleth […]"

  2. 2
    common Old World thrush noted for its song wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Coined at the end of the 19th century from mavis, a poetical name for the song thrush.

Etymology 2

From Middle English mavys, from Anglo-Norman mauvis, from Old French mauvis (“song thrush”).

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