bivvy
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]bivvy (plural bivvies)
- (colloquial) A small tent or shelter.
- 2011 November 12, Caitlin Moran, ‘Protestors? They're Beautiful’, The Times:
- It would be alarming and disconcerting if people sleeping on roll-mats in central London emerged from their bivvies at breakfast, box-fresh, and sporting a crease down each leg of their slacks.
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]bivvy (third-person singular simple present bivvies, present participle bivvying, simple past and past participle bivvied)
Etymology 2
[edit]Perhaps related to beverage.
Noun
[edit]bivvy
- (UK, slang, obsolete) Beer.
- 2016, Christopher James, Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Ruby Elephants, →ISBN:
- Well, if you're willing to sub me a shant of bivvy, then I'll tell ya
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
- Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant