a. Sc. and north. dial. Forms: 6, 9 yevery, 8 aevery, 9 yeovery, e(e)very, aiverie. [f. YEVER a. + -Y1.] Greedy, voracious.

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1536.  Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), II. 272. Utheris, quhilkis war mair yevery and tume.

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17[?].  Dick o the Cow, xxv., in Child, Ballads (1889), III. 465. The lads, that hungry and aevery was.

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1825.  Jamieson, Aiverie, adj., very hungry, Roxb.; a term nearly obsolete.

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1847.  Halliwell, Yeovery, hungry. Northumb.

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  Hence Yevrisome a., ravenously greedy.

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1825.  Jamieson, Yevrisome, having an appetite habitually craving, Dumfr.

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