Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To divide. Often used with up:
- noun A share or portion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dividend; an amount to be divided or shared by the members of a party or ring.
- To go shares.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb colloq. divide up among a group; distribute; -- often followed by up.
- noun British a dividend, especially one paid by a cooperative society.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
share orportion - noun UK A
dividend , especially one from theCo-op - verb To
divide something intoportions . - noun A
foolish person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun short for dividend; especially one paid by a cooperative society
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I'm expecting a divvy from the Harpenden Building Society
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I'm expecting a divvy from the Harpenden Building Society
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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We were pretty much crowded but were going to 'divvy' on the space.
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Brother John then turns in the order to the treasurer and gets twelve dollars for it, and then they 'divvy' on the thing.
A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Hamlin Garland 1900
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"Yes, count, and see if the rascals made a fair 'divvy' of it," added the captain.
Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi Oliver Optic 1859
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"De driver called a divvy wid de cop comin ', an I had ter shell -- an' wot he left de cop pinched.
The Miracle Man 1909
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That was a moment when a defeated Ottoman Empire gave the victorious Europeans the power to divvy up the Middle East and to create new countries both for diasporan Jews and for the Arabs, who had been dominated by the Turks.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Not that long ago Tychus would have insisted on taking the extra time to divvy up the money equally.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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Regardless of what a song “should” cost based on how you divvy up the expenses made in making the first copy is not the same as Marginal Cost.
Matthew Yglesias » The Futile Struggle Against Free Content 2010
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Halcor sought to cut its fine, which was originally €9.16 million $13 million, for participating in an effort to fix prices and divvy up the market for copper plumbing tubes.
EU Cartel Fines Elicit Human-Rights Argument Charles Forelle 2011
seanahan commented on the word divvy
Different dictionaries list this as either a shortening of dividend or divide.
October 22, 2007
skipvia commented on the word divvy
I've always thought of it as short for divide, as in "divvy up the spoils." However, I did know a girl in high school with the given name of "Divvie." Her father was a insurance broker and she was his dividend, according to her.
October 22, 2007
yarb commented on the word divvy
Also British slang for a slow or gormless person. E.g. "Bob you divvy, Africa's a continent not a country!"
October 22, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word divvy
Often shortened to div, in my experience.
October 22, 2007
uselessness commented on the word divvy
Sounds like it could be short for either word, seeing as how one is a noun and one is a verb. I mean heck, isn't divide really just the verb form of dividend anyway?
October 23, 2007