navee

English

Noun

navee (uncountable)

1. (rare, poetic or archaic) Alternative or pronunciation spelling of navy.
   • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore;  […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company,  […], →OCLC:

     Sir Joseph Porter: I polished up that handle so carefullee, That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

   • 2001, Eric Darton, Certain Amazing Adventures of Mr. Hoel:

     [...] having rowed and portaged a score of pestilential leagues upstream from the disemboguement of El Rio Echt to discover a mine so deeply posh with all things gay, gaudy, and jinglesome in the pocket that the very rumor of it, much less its actuality, launched a merchant navee, a flotilla of sharp-toothed frigates and an extortion industry - and this was only chanticleer's crow at the dawning, before even he learned to peck sugar from the palm of the Barbadoes.