bivvy
/ˈbɪvi
/informal
noun (plural bivvies)
A small tent or temporary shelter.Talking of bivvies, if I do more than 24 hrs then I use a bivvy otherwise I am happy with my oval umbrella shelter....
- By all means set up a bivvy at the lakeside if you're allowed to do so.
- The levels can fall alarmingly fast; what might have been a comfy swim last year may be high and dry this year, requiring a route march through a hundred yards of mud simply to get from your bivvy down to the water's edge.
verb (bivvies, bivvying, bivvied) [no object]
Stay in a small tent or temporary shelter: he opted to bivvy up for two days...
- ‘Camping sauvage’ is the French term for bivvying up by the lakeside, and on many waters it is banned.
- Now, compared with bivvying up for a few days it might be short, but there is often a strong case for spending more than a few hours stalking.
- This was coming from people who don't mind bivvying on a tiny ledge two hundred metres up a sheer cliff face.
Origin
Early 20th century: abbreviation of bivouac.
Rhymes
- allosteric
- allosterically
- allosterism
- allostery
- allot
- allotable
- allotetraploid
- allotetraploidy
- allotheism
- allothigenic
- allotment
- allotmenteer
- allotment letter
- allotment system
- allotone
- allotransplant
- allotransplantation
- allotransplanted
- allotriomorph
- allotriomorphic
- allotrope
- allotrophic
- allotropic
- allotropical
- allotropically