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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wavy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wavy (=with loose curls)
▪ Her golden wavy hair fell around her shoulders.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
▪ He's white, in his late twenties, about six feet tall with gingery blond wavy hair.
▪ He wore his carefully combed wavy hair, dark brown with tinges of gray, rather long.
▪ Brown, wavy hair - not that really dark brown, but the sort that goes lighter in the sun.
▪ He was an interesting guy, last name Konno, with wavy hair and dark glasses.
▪ By Taylor Ferguson, Glasgow Rugged features softened with short wavy hair.
▪ Kee was dark, striking rather than pretty, with wavy hair.
▪ Delicate waves and subtle highlights enhance gentle movement Natural colourant adds richness to long, wavy hair.
▪ In those days he'd had thick wavy hair.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A series of wavy lines appeared on the video monitor.
▪ The flag's stripes are wavy and alternate in color.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Eventually we came across a rope of animal tracks dropped across the pan, its wavy parallels disappearing into shimmer.
▪ He wore his carefully combed wavy hair, dark brown with tinges of gray, rather long.
▪ Her short wavy black hair was combed neatly back from a rather narrow sloping forehead with prominent brow ridges.
▪ If that friend has Netscape animation, the sonnet will do a wavy dance.
▪ It sort of humped up in the middle, sucking water with it, shrugging sprays of water from its wavy edges!
▪ The margins of the valves are often wavy, and deeply folded in other species.
▪ To others it is the wavy symbol of the primal waters attached to the cross of matter.
▪ When growing emerse, the leaves are short, oval and wavy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wavy

Wavy \Wav"y\, a.

  1. Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves. ``The wavy seas.''
    --Chapman.

  2. Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames.

    Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn.
    --Prior.

  3. (Bot.) Undulating on the border or surface; waved.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wavy

1580s, from wave (n.) + -y (2). Related: Waviness.

Wiktionary
wavy

Etymology 1 a. 1 rise or swelling in waves. 2 Full of waves. 3 Moving to and fro; undulate. 4 Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved. 5 (context botany of a margin English) Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate. 6 (context heraldry English) undé, in a wavy line; applied to ordinary, or division lines. Etymology 2

n. (context possibly dated English) (alternative form of wavey nodot=1 English) (qualifier: goose).

WordNet
wavy
  1. adj. in waves

  2. having wrinkles or waves [syn: crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavelike]

  3. [also: waviest, wavier]

Wikipedia
Wavy (song)

"Wavy" is a song by American singer Ty Dolla Sign included as a bonus track on his debut studio album, '' Free TC '' (2015), and features fellow American rapper Joe Moses. The track was released on January 16, 2016, as the sixth single from the album.

Usage examples of "wavy".

The light was more than sufficient, but the different colors in the bands caused the colors on the surface to seem distorted and oddly not quite right, and atmospherics further twisted it into odd wavy bands on the water.

Andrew exhaled noisily, combed his fingers through his wavy brown hair, and unbuttoned his pants.

Her wavy locks of rich brown were borne that night, by the careful hand of Mrs Bruce, to Rob Guddle, the barber.

Then we noticed that one of the khaki uniforms surrounded by a dozen others at the bar was shaped in a disturbingly different and disturbingly familiar way, and that it came with softly wavy brown hiar and a young, animated, unutterably feminine face.

Their lily-white banner bore the great hierogram of the Wheel, its inner and outer circles connected by wavy lines.

On the coloured floors of the royal quarters there were representations of the thickets of the Great River with their plants and animals, all drawn wonderfully lifelike and framed with wavy lines or spirals of many colours.

Thick white wavy hair, broad beaky nose, wide, thick-lipped shapely mouth, high cheekbones, large lobeless ears.

Its wavy blade extended over four feet, and after that came an eight-inch ricasso between the formal crosspiece and a second, smaller one of edged steel.

Rollie, you wavy haired tinhorn son of a bitch, send eighty thousand dollars quick or these boys are gonna put me under.

That the Christ will emerge from a wavy figure walking out of a desert mirage to become the touchable face of a best friend.

He was personable and handsome, with wavy dark hair, and wrote and spoke well.

Lodge, a bespectacled gentleman farmer with a cherubic face and handsome gray wavy hair, rapped the gavel.

The writing was as legible as if it had been typeset, each letter shod and gloved with serifs, the parentheses neatly crimped, the wavy hyphens like stylized bolts of lightning.

His wavy hair, longish and curling down onto his neck, the well-defined brows and the distinctive mustache all appeared much blacker, and his brilliant eyes were like pieces of onyx in his tan face.

Orr was a happy and unsuspecting simpleton with a thick mass of wavy polychromatic hair parted down the center.