On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Kerim Aydin<ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > ps. Maybe not the best reference (i.e. a good dictionary would give dialect > origin, maybe the source does) but: http://www.yourdictionary.com/marvy.
marvy, adj. slang (chiefly U.S.). = MARVELLOUS adj. 2. 1932 G. LORIMER & S. LORIMER Men are like Street Cars iv. 103 The hockey was quite exciting... Welly and I had a perfectly marvy time. 1961 S. J. PERELMAN Rising Gorge 158 It's too marvy meeting you here, just as I was organizing my climb. 1977 New Musical Express 24 Dec. 14 (advt.) An ultra marvey humour mag. 1999 Daily News (Los Angeles) (Nexis) 28 Mar. L12 Here's an eclectic mishmash of nifty noshes and marvy meals in the middle of horsey land. --OED
