flivvern.

Brit.

/ˈflɪvə/, U.S.

/ˈflɪvər/

Etymology: Of obscure origin.

slang (originally U.S.).

1. A cheap motor car or aeroplane. Also, ‘a destroyer of 750 tons or less’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1928).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > small or cheap

flivver1910

runabout car1912

throwabout1922

knockabout1956

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > cheap aircraft

runabout1932

flivver1936

1910 W. A. Fraser Red Meekins (1921) 22 You stick to me an' you'll be travellin' 'round the country in a flivver.

1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 296 Was his little Sid fool enough to beat it all the way over here in a flivver for eight bucks the round trip?

1920 Glasgow Herald 21 July 9 May be I will disguise the Shamrock as a ‘flivver’ (as the Ford car is known here).

1924 ‘Digit’ Confessions 20th Cent. Hobo 11 Flivver, Ford automobile.

1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters vi. 58 Rowan McCoy drove his new car—it was a flivver, though they did not call it that in those days.

1926 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Apr. 39 Won't it be amusing when we can..step into our little up-shooting flivvers at the back door?

1927 Punch 2 Feb. 135/1 He has successfully fought the villain Trust; his workmen all own ‘flivvers’; there has never been a strike.

1936 Beaver Mar. 9/1 So-called ‘flea’ or ‘flivver’ types [of aeroplanes].

1956 S. Bellow Seize the Day (1957) i. 22 He had driven a painted flivver.

2. A person or thing that has a damaging or deleterious influence; a failure.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful thing or person

appairer1382

malisona1525

deformer1562

annoyer1577

scathe1579

harmer1583

mischief1586

allayer1615

crippler1648

devilifier1793

vitiator1846

deterioratora1856

flivver1915

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > one who is a failure

botch1769

non-starter1839

schlemiel1868

also-ran1896

rinky-dink1900

flivver1915

wash-out1918

jabroni1919

bust1922

blowout1925

dropout1930

zilch1933

sad sack1943

loser1955

1915 H. L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) xiii. 230 That Jackson lad has offered me about ten thousand of them vegetable cigarettes, but I'll have to throw him down. He's the human flivver. Put him in a car of dressed beef and he'd freeze it between here and Spokane.

1915 Dial. Notes 4 233 Flivver, a hoax; also, a failure.

Derivatives

ˈflivver v. (intransitive) (a) to fail, to come short of success; (b) to travel in a flivver.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)]

withsitc1330

fail1340

defaulta1382

errc1430

to fall (also go) by the wayside1526

misthrive1567

miss1599

to come bad, or no, speedc1600

shrink1608

abortivea1670

maroon1717

to flash in the pan1792

skunk1831

to go to the dickens1833

to miss fire1838

to fall flat1841

fizzle1847

to lose out1858

to fall down1873

to crap out1891

flivver1912

flop1919

skid1920

to lay an egg1929

to blow out1939

to strike out1946

bomb1963

to come (also have) a buster1968

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > ride in a wheeled vehicle > in a motor car > in specific type

flivver1912

jeep1942

1912 L. J. Vance Destroying Angel vi. 74 If the production flivvers, I'll need that thirty cents.

1927 Bulletin 11 Apr. 14/1 I was finding the desert a bit flat when you flivvered in.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	flivver
释义	flivvern. Brit. /ˈflɪvə/, U.S. /ˈflɪvər/ Etymology: Of obscure origin. slang (originally U.S.). 1. A cheap motor car or aeroplane. Also, ‘a destroyer of 750 tons or less’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1928). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > small or cheap flivver1910 runabout car1912 throwabout1922 knockabout1956 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > cheap aircraft runabout1932 flivver1936 1910 W. A. Fraser Red Meekins (1921) 22 You stick to me an' you'll be travellin' 'round the country in a flivver. 1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 296 Was his little Sid fool enough to beat it all the way over here in a flivver for eight bucks the round trip? 1920 Glasgow Herald 21 July 9 May be I will disguise the Shamrock as a ‘flivver’ (as the Ford car is known here). 1924 ‘Digit’ Confessions 20th Cent. Hobo 11 Flivver, Ford automobile. 1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters vi. 58 Rowan McCoy drove his new car—it was a flivver, though they did not call it that in those days. 1926 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Apr. 39 Won't it be amusing when we can..step into our little up-shooting flivvers at the back door? 1927 Punch 2 Feb. 135/1 He has successfully fought the villain Trust; his workmen all own ‘flivvers’; there has never been a strike. 1936 Beaver Mar. 9/1 So-called ‘flea’ or ‘flivver’ types [of aeroplanes]. 1956 S. Bellow Seize the Day (1957) i. 22 He had driven a painted flivver. 2. A person or thing that has a damaging or deleterious influence; a failure. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful thing or person appairer1382 malisona1525 deformer1562 annoyer1577 scathe1579 harmer1583 mischief1586 allayer1615 crippler1648 devilifier1793 vitiator1846 deterioratora1856 flivver1915 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > one who is a failure botch1769 non-starter1839 schlemiel1868 also-ran1896 rinky-dink1900 flivver1915 wash-out1918 jabroni1919 bust1922 blowout1925 dropout1930 zilch1933 sad sack1943 loser1955 1915 H. L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) xiii. 230 That Jackson lad has offered me about ten thousand of them vegetable cigarettes, but I'll have to throw him down. He's the human flivver. Put him in a car of dressed beef and he'd freeze it between here and Spokane. 1915 Dial. Notes 4 233 Flivver, a hoax; also, a failure. Derivatives ˈflivver v. (intransitive) (a) to fail, to come short of success; (b) to travel in a flivver. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] withsitc1330 fail1340 defaulta1382 errc1430 to fall (also go) by the wayside1526 misthrive1567 miss1599 to come bad, or no, speedc1600 shrink1608 abortivea1670 maroon1717 to flash in the pan1792 skunk1831 to go to the dickens1833 to miss fire1838 to fall flat1841 fizzle1847 to lose out1858 to fall down1873 to crap out1891 flivver1912 flop1919 skid1920 to lay an egg1929 to blow out1939 to strike out1946 bomb1963 to come (also have) a buster1968 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > ride in a wheeled vehicle > in a motor car > in specific type flivver1912 jeep1942 1912 L. J. Vance Destroying Angel vi. 74 If the production flivvers, I'll need that thirty cents. 1927 Bulletin 11 Apr. 14/1 I was finding the desert a bit flat when you flivvered in. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1910
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