yevery, a. Sc. and north. dial.
(ˈjɛvərɪ)
Forms: 6, 9 yevery, 8 aevery, 9 yeovery, e(e)very, aiverie.
[f. yever a. + -y1.]
Greedy, voracious.
| 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 272 Utheris, quhilkis war mair yevery and tume. 17.. Dick o the Cow xxv. in Child Ballads (1889) III. 465 The lads, that hungry and aevery was. 1825 Jamieson, Aiverie, adj., very hungry, Roxb.; a term nearly obsolete. 1847 Halliwell, Yeovery, hungry. Northumb. |
Hence ˈyevrisome a., ravenously greedy.
| 1825 Jamieson, Yevrisome, having an appetite habitually craving, Dumfr. |