divvy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, Canada) IPA: /ˈdɪvi/
divvy (plural divvies)
Verbdivvy (divvies, present participle divvying; past and past participle divvied)
- (informal, transitive) To divide into portions.
- We divvied the money into equal portions to split between us.
- German: Dividend
divvy (plural divvies)
- (slang, pejorative) A foolish person.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:fool
- Put it down and stop being a divvy!
divvy
- (informal, dated) Divine; very pleasant, wonderful.
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not..., Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), page 36:
- ‘You'd find,’ the priest said, ‘that it whittled down until the only divvy moment was when you stood waiting in the booking-office for the young man to take the tickets.’
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not..., Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), page 36:
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