veny
See also: věny, vény, and -vény
English
Etymology
Alteration of French venue.
Noun
veny (plural venies)
- (fencing) A strike or blow.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 47, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- It is not, as at Fence, where the number of venies [tr. touches] given, gets the victorie: So long as the enemie is on foot, a man is newly to begin.
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Anagrams
- envy
Finnish
Verb
veny
- Indicative present connegative form of venyä.
- Second-person singular imperative present form of venyä.
- Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of venyä.