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divvers

divvers noun: divinity (as a subject or examination).

Noun

divvers (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, Oxford University slang) divinity (as a subject or examination).
    • It is indeed no small hardship to give up fourteen successive evenings to an examination so farcical and extravagant as Divvers, which is void of definite purpose or result, when they might have been doing a thousand and one things of enjoyment and interest such as only a University can provide.1911, A. Hamilton Gibbs, The Compleat Oxford Man, page 211
    • It was obvious to everybody by then that he was not going to pass "divvers".1988, Bevis Hillier, Young Betjeman, →ISBN, page 194
    Synonyms:
    div

Synonyms of divvers

Origin of divvers

Jocular modification of divinity + -ers. See Oxford "-er".

Questions about divvers

What does divvers mean?
Divvers means divinity (as a subject or examination).
What part of speech is divvers?
Divvers is a noun.

Words near divvers in the dictionary

  1. divulsioned
  2. divulsions
  3. divulsive
  4. divulsor
  5. divulsors
  6. divvers
  7. divvie
  8. divvied
  9. divvied up
  10. divvies
  11. divvies up

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