bruvver
nounUK /ˈbɹʌ.və(ɹ)/ · US /ˈbɹʌ.vɚ/
Etymology Representing the Cockney or Multicultural London English pronunciation of brother (th-fronting).
1
Cockney, Multicultural London English, Slang Brother.
- Gurdjieff I thot a man an a bruvver, but NObuddy is goin to swallow Ouspensky1953, 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
- Gawd knows when yer bruvver's gonna get married.1992, Harry Bowling, The girl from Cotton Lane, Headline Book Publishing:
2
Nonstandard Nonstandard form of brother.
- Chicken was still elated. "I was way up there, wasn’t I? Wasn’t I? I’m a tell my brovver."1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, page 60:
- Derived terms
- bruv