divvy

idiot.
fool.
al sharpton is a divvy.
divide.

to divide evenly, or to share with everyone.
divvy up the loot, man.
used usually as a harmless insult

usually meaning silly / stupid / idiot

but in a harmless non threatening way
‘you forgot the flight path again? lol your such a divvy!’
this word doesn’t come from anything to do with the dole or unemployment, it’s a north-eastern english word originating from the mining community’s use of different types of lamp whilst ‘doon the pit’. an early, dangerous lamp nicknamed the scotch davy (‘divvie’) had a high propensity to explode, and was superseded by safer lamps such as the george stephenson (‘geordie’) lamp. so someone would be unwise to go down a mine with a davy/divvie lamp, hence the word coming to mean a daft or silly person. non-offensive and can be affectionate.
‘ye keep way from me if ye usin a divvy!’ (miners’ usage)

‘ha, you’re such a divvy’ or ‘he’s a right div.’ (modern usage)
divvy…a person who is a bit of a waster, or is unemployed. comes from the dole, which is divided to the unemployed. a shorter version of this is the word divv, which also means the same thing.
your in this pub all day you divvy….or

“your such a f-cking divv, you lost your job at the pig farm months ago and your still on the dole.

the libertines song what a waster..second verse….
“what a divvy. what a f-cking divv, talking like a moron, walking like a spiv”
(uk) wastrel or sponger (pos orig from 1950s unemployment dividend i.e. dole)
you are nothing but a scouse divvy
a pregnant duck
cher lloyd uses divvy when making a smart comment

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