Noun: mavis
| Singular | mavis |
| Plural | mavises |
Sample Sentences
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At midnight the moon cometh, / And looketh down alone; / Her song the lintwhite swelleth, / The clear voiced mavis dwelleth […] [1830, Tennyson Alfred Lord, “"Claribel"”, in Poems Chiefly Lyrical:]
Nouns inflected like mavis
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English mavys, from Anglo-Norman mauvis, from Old French mauvis (“song thrush”). See: Middle English Nouns '
mavys'.