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spivery

spivery is the alternative spelling of spivvery.

Meaning of spivvery

Noun

spivvery (countable and uncountable, plural spivveries)

  1. Behaviour characteristic of a spiv; crookery, petty crime.
    • The Government decided the issues in accordance with the best principles, he said: "The weak first; and the strong next." Mr. Churchill preferred a free-for-all, but what was Toryism except organised Spivvery?1948 July 4, “Mr Bevan's bitter attack on Tories”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of spivery

pluralspiveries

Questions about spivery

What is spivery the alternative spelling of?
Spivery is the alternative spelling of spivvery.

Words near spivery in the dictionary

  1. Spivak pronouns
  2. Spivakian
  3. Spivaks
  4. Spivas
  5. spiveries
  6. spivery
  7. spives
  8. Spivey
  9. Spiveys
  10. spivias
  11. spivish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spivery (page history and authors); spivvery (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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