quivery
/ˈkwɪvəɹi/adjective
quivery is an adjective meaning “quivering; aquiver” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Q-U-I-V-E-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does quivery mean?
adjective
- 1
quivering; aquiver
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce quivery?
- /ˈkwɪvəɹi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of quivery
- more quivery comparative
- most quivery superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is quivery?
Quivery appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does quivery come from?
From quiver + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).