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voicy en · ADJ

Etymology

From voice + -y.

Meanings

1. Relating to the voice, or using the voice; vocal.
   • Gar is a most important Indo-European word, and the primary meaning is sound or voice, and the term was applied to this lake by the Mairtine because it is a voicy lake. 1919, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, page 72:
   • It was a while before he found himself there, with a voicy sigh of satisfaction. 1983, Howard White, Raincoast Chronicles Six/ten, page 144:
   • […] a long narrow board on which a small moving sphere, like a counter on an abacus, denoted visually the location of the ball while the plays were announced in bunches by a voicy man with a megaphone. 1999, Robert Bechtold Heilman, The Professor and the Profession, page 39:

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