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▪ I. divvy, a.2 and n.2 dial. and slang (Midland and north.).|ˈdɪvɪ|
Also divy.
[Of uncertain origin.]
A. adj. Foolish, idiotic; half-witted, daft. Esp. of persons.
B. n. A foolish or half-witted person.
1975P. O'Shaughnessy in Lore & Lang. II. iii. 25 [Boston] Divvy,..daft. 1981Guardian 1 Oct. 10/6 The instructor..did rise to describing young Oxborrow's rather poor landing as ‘divy-dancing down the runway’. The flight lieutenant must be from Liverpool, Divy is that city's word for moronic, or worse. 1987Ibid. 23 Feb. 12/4 [Nottingham] I would be grateful for some enlightenment on another insult whose origins perplex me: the word ‘divvy’—meaning ‘thick as two short planks’—which seems to be in quite general use among schoolchildren. Ibid. 2 Mar. 12/7, I first started using the term ‘divvy’ some 20 years ago... When I was growing up in Liverpool in the 1960's it was commonly assumed to be derived from the word ‘individual’. 1989Box Autumn 30/1 It was an automatic which we shouldn't have used because you can't get the wheel spins and loads of the criminals around Liverpool were saying ‘yah divvy ya shoulda used a turbo’.
▪ II. ˈdivvy, (divi.), n.
Colloq. abbreviation of dividend. Hence ˈdivvy v. colloq., to ‘go shares’. Freq. to divvy (up), to divide (up).
1872in Amer. Speech (1952) XXVII. 77 A fraudulent ‘divy’. 1877L. Grover in Goldberg & Heffner America's Lost Plays (1940) IV. 203 We divvy a cool $20,000. 1880A. A. Hayes New Colorado (1881) xi. 156 The two men, unsuspicious of danger were ‘divvying up’ the spoils in the middle of the road. 1884J. Hay Bread-winners x. 150 ‘You surely do not intend—’ ‘To strike Saul for a divvy?’ 1890G. B. Shaw Fab. Ess. in Socialism 88 It degenerated into mere ‘divvy’ hunting and joint-stock shop-keeping. 1890Nation (N.Y.) 10 Apr. 291/1 Where the chiefs have large families, and the ‘divvies’ are inadequate for their support. 1893A. Kenealy Molly & Her Man of War 4 We even went so far as to ‘divvy up’. 1894Westm. Gaz. 3 Oct. 6/1 Co-operators tried to get as much as they could out of the servants, in order to increase the ‘divi’. 1926Kipling Debits & Credits 156, I pinched 'em an' divvied with Macklin. 1936‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell xv. 227 They didn't divvy up with the spoils like our crowd would have done. 1938J. Rice Somers Inheritance iv. vii. 264 It says here his money is to be divvied up. How'd you like a cut-in? 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 766/5 The problem of ‘divvying-up’ the spoils of automation.
▪ III. divvy, a. slang.|ˈdɪvɪ|
[f. first syllable of divine (A. 5 b) + -y1; cf. deevy a.]
Extremely pleasant, ‘divine’, ‘heavenly’.
1903Daily Chron. 1 Aug. 8/1, I heard one of them say that ‘the dimpy was divvy’, and this, when translated, meant that a certain dinner party was divine. 1924F. M. Ford Some do Not i. ii. 48 The only divvy moment was when you stood waiting in the booking-office for the young man to take the tickets. |