cavie Sc.
(ˈkeɪvɪ)
Also cavey, cavy.
[app. a. MDu. kēvie, Du. or Flem. kevie, 16th c. Flem. also kavie (Plantin 1573), cage, coop, corresp. to OHG. chevia, MHG. kevje, Ger. käfig, käfich cage:—WGer. kavia str. fem., a. late L. *cavia, for cavea cage, coop, den, etc., f. cavus hollow.]
A hen-coop; a house for fowls.
| 1756 M. Calderwood Jrnl. v. (1884) 142 It is just like a cavy full of men, instead of hens. 1805 J. Nicol Poems II. 90 (Jam.) Nor duck, nor turkie-cavie enter'd. 1808 Mayne Siller Gun 56 (Jam.) Croose as a cock in his ain cavie. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth xxv, Cooped up in a convent, like a kain-hen in a cavey. |