Spivvery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈspɪvəɹi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Spivvery is a noun meaning Behaviour characteristic of a spiv; crookery, petty crime.
Meaning
Behaviour characteristic of a spiv; crookery, petty crime.
Example Sentences
Rome is also a city of spivvery, a city which had a black market before black markets were invented.
Slater Walker became synonymous, after the 1973 crash, with City spivvery and the kind of risk-taking excess from which the next generation failed to learn.
This is spivvery for which you and I pay billions extra just to get minimal services—it can also lead to a financial fragility at the heart of the firms on which Britain now relies.
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?
Word Forms
- spivveries
- spivery
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spivias, prickery, spirling, lickspittle, squibbing, tosspottery.
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