mavis

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English

Etymology

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

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Noun

mavis (plural mavises)

  1. (poetic) song thrush
    • 1830, Tennyson Alfred Lord, “"Claribel"”, in Poems Chiefly Lyrical:
      At midnight the moon cometh, / And looketh down alone; / Her song the lintwhite swelleth, / The clear voiced mavis dwelleth []

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Verb

māvīs

  1. second-person singular present active indicative of mālō