divvie

Definitions

From dividend with the diminutive suffix -ie

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A 'divvie' is a nickname for somebody with the special knack of knowing an antique when he sees one.

The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981
He's what's known in the antique trade as a "divvie."

Murder Crossed Boylan, Eleanor 1996
No human bein ', Hinnissy, can undherstand what the divvie use it was to sink a ship that cost two hundherd thousan' dollars an 'was worth at laste eighty dollars in

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901
We should have let Saud and Iran draw a line down the middle of Iraq and divvie it up.

Hot Air » Top Picks 2009
You divvie up the total cost of covering all employees, both current and past, among the number of current employees, and that's how you arrive at that fiture.

Scott Paeth 2008
Didn't that divvie trapattoni 'URGE' Shay to leave us recently! ..

Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2008
As for your ‘divvie civvie’ - where are these people’s common sense, they seem to come from the same mould as the old senior officers and their obsessions with wearing headgear at the scene of the serious fir/fatacc/any critical incident.

I Can Tell We’re Going To Be Friends « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007