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Divvy

adj, noun, verb, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Divine; very pleasant, wonderful. dated, informal

    "‘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.’"

Noun
  1. 1
    A dividend; a share or portion. informal
  2. 2
    A foolish person. derogatory, slang

    "Put it down and stop being a divvy!"

  3. 3
    short for dividend; especially one paid by a cooperative society wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To divide into portions. informal, transitive

    "We divvied the money into equal portions to split between us."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of dividend + -y.

Etymology 2

Clipping of dividend + -y.

Etymology 3

Unclear. Suggested sources include a corruption of Davy lamp as used by miners; dividend as an unemployment benefit; or divot meaning "turf", used euphemistically in place of the vulgar sod.

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