bivvy
English
Etymology 1
From bivouac + -y.
Noun
bivvy (plural bivvies)
- (colloquial) A small tent or shelter.
- 2011, Caitlin Moran, ‘Protestors? They're Beautiful’, The Times, 12 Nov 2011:
- It would be alarming and disconcerting if people sleeping on roll-mats in central London emerged from their bivvies at breakfast, box-fresh, and sporting a crease down each leg of their slacks.
- 2011, Caitlin Moran, ‘Protestors? They're Beautiful’, The Times, 12 Nov 2011:
Verb
bivvy (third-person singular simple present bivvies, present participle bivvying, simple past and past participle bivvied)
- To erect, or to stay in, such a tent or shelter.
Etymology 2
Perhaps related to beverage.
Noun
bivvy
- (UK, slang, obsolete) Beer.
- 2016, Christopher James, Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Ruby Elephants, →ISBN:
- Well, if you're willing to sub me a shant of bivvy, then I'll tell ya
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References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
- 1889, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant