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spivvery

noun
/ˈspɪvəɹi/

Etymology

From spiv + -ery.

  1. derived from spiv — “sparrow”
  2. suffixed as spivvery — “spiv + ery”

Definitions

  1. Behaviour characteristic of a spiv

    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?
    • Rome is also a city of spivvery, a city which had a black market before black markets were invented.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spivvery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA