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bruva

bruva is the alternative form of bruvver.

Meaning of bruvver

Noun

bruvver (plural bruvvers)

  1. (Cockney, Multicultural-London-English, slang) Brother.
    • Gurdjieff I thot a man an a bruvver, but NObuddy is goin to swallow Ouspensky1953, Ezra Pound, letter to Margaret Anderson, reproduced in Thomas L. Scott et al. (editors), Pound/The Little Review: the Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson, New Directions Books (1988)...

Forms of bruva

pluralbruvas

Questions about bruva

What is bruva the alternative form of?
Bruva is the alternative form of bruvver.

Words near bruva in the dictionary

  1. Brutus
  2. Brutuses
  3. Bruun
  4. Bruuns
  5. bruv
  6. bruva
  7. bruvs
  8. bruvva
  9. bruvvas
  10. bruvver
  11. bruvvers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bruva (page history and authors); bruvver (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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