arvo
/ˈɑːvəʊ
/noun (plural arvos) Australian /NZ informal
Afternoon: on Monday arvo...
- A barbie in the arvo always sounds like a great plan and not in the slightest bit pretentious if suggested by an Australian.
- So after a rather wearing morning I only had the arvo to make the final arrangements.
- Milder conditions prevailed last Saturday with the greens recovering at a great rate and a north-easterly springing up in the arvo, making good scores a little tougher.
Origin
1930s: abbreviation of afternoon (with voicing of the f) + -o.
Rhymes
- premiss
- premium
- premium apprentice
- Premium Bond
- premium bonus system
- premiumed
- premiumless
- premium rate
- Premium Savings Bond
- premium system
- premix
- premixture
- première danseuse
- premodern
- pre-modernism
- pre-modernist
- premodification
- premodifier
- premodify
- premolar
- premolt
- premonish
- premonishment
- premonition
- premonitive