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English
Etymology
Representing the Cockney or Multicultural London English pronunciation of brother (th-fronting).
Pronunciation
Noun
bruvver (plural bruvvers)
- (Cockney, MLE, slang) Brother.
- 1953, Ezra Pound, letter to Margaret Anderson, reproduced in Thomas L. Scott et al. (editors), Pound/The Little Review: the Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson, New Directions Books (1988), page 314:
- Gurdjieff I thot a man an a bruvver, but NObuddy is goin to swallow Ouspensky
1992, Harry Bowling, The girl from Cotton Lane, Headline Book Publishing:Gawd knows when yer bruvver's gonna get married.
- Nonstandard form of brother.
1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, page 60:Chicken was still elated. "I was way up there, wasn’t I? Wasn’t I? I’m a tell my brovver."
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