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Word: wavey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...blaze is Ryoichi Hattori, 43, a jolly, wavey-haired fellow whom many Japanese jazz composers call sensei (teacher). Hattori teaches chiefly by object lesson: he has written more than 2,000 songs, many of them smash hits. Last week his Aoi Sammyaku (Blue Mountains) headed the Japanese radio hit parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazzy | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Hardly larger than a duck, Ross's goose is the smallest and rarest of American species. It is white, with black wing tips. Northmen call it the "galoot" or "scabby-nosed wavey" (its bill has rough bumps at the base). Its official name came from Bernard R. Ross, a Hudson's Bay Co. factor at Fort Resolution. In autumn the birds migrate south and west to spend the winter in California valleys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Scabby-Nosed Wavey | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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