Definitions
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- adjective slang
poor ,penniless - noun slang one who is poor, a
pauper
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Formals give povvo people something to live for."
unknown title 2009
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If I can't afford a house and my taxes help fund throwing first home buyers a lazy 14K should the recipients of that largess be limited in the type of home they can buy, maybe we should say you only get the FHOG if you accept living in the povvo suburbs?
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In my defence, I did originally write "povvo hippy students", but the "vv" looked like a
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I suppose if were a povvo hippy student I guess I'd be whistling too.
News 2009
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I didn't feel any different and what I cooked didn't really change as I was a complete povvo and didn't bother buying much meat anyway.
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It is quite another to be an adult and face Allsopp's aristo homilies directed at making povvo proles shape up and cut their expenditure in line with the decline in real wages by reviving dead "crafts" as part of a TV-government conspiracy dreamed up by her and George Osborne on a billionaire's yacht moored off Corfu that meeting probably never happened, but, in making it up, I feel justified because the actual truth of Kirstie's commissioning process is surely even more boring.
The Guardian World News Stuart Jeffries 2011
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