Pl. waveys, wavies. [See WAWA.] A northern (American) goose of the genus Chen, esp. the common wavey, C. hyperboreus. Blue wavey, C. cærulescens. Horned wavey, C. rossi.
1795. S. Hearne, Journ. North. Ocean, 329. The laughing goose, wavey, (or white goose,) gulls, [etc.]. Ibid., 442. Horned Wavey. Ibid. I have seen them in as large flocks as the Common Wavey, or Snow Goose.
1831. Swainson & Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., II. 467. Anser hyperboreus…. Snow Goose…. Wavey. Hudson’s Bay Residents.
1892. W. Pike, Barren Ground N. Canada, 161. Here the snow geese, or white ‘wavies’ were resting in thousands.
