bivvy

== English == === Etymology 1 === From bivouac +‎ -y. ==== Noun ==== bivvy (plural bivvies) (colloquial) A small tent or shelter. ===== Derived terms ===== ==== Verb ==== bivvy (third-person singular simple present bivvies, present participle bivvying, simple past and past participle bivvied) To erect, or to stay in, such a tent or shelter. === Etymology 2 === Perhaps related to beverage. ==== Noun ==== bivvy (UK, slang, obsolete) Beer. ===== References ===== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary Albert Barrère; Charles Godfrey Leland (1889), A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant