dyvour

Scots

Alternative forms

• dyour, dyowr, dyvor, dyvar, diver, divyr, divor, divour (all obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier dyour, dyowr (“bankrupt”) (early 15th c.), of unknown origin.

Noun

dyvour (plural dyvours)

1. (obsolete) A bankrupt.

Further reading

• “dyvour, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “dyvour, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.