arvo
/ˈɑːvəʊ
/noun (plural arvos) Australian /NZ informal
Afternoon: on Monday arvo...
- A barbie in the arvo always sounds like a great plan and not in the slightest bit pretentious if suggested by an Australian.
- So after a rather wearing morning I only had the arvo to make the final arrangements.
- Milder conditions prevailed last Saturday with the greens recovering at a great rate and a north-easterly springing up in the arvo, making good scores a little tougher.
Origin
1930s: abbreviation of afternoon (with voicing of the f) + -o.
Rhymes
- pharmacoepidemiological
- pharmacoepidemiologist
- pharmacoepidemiology
- pharmacogenetic
- pharmacogeneticist
- pharmacogenetics
- pharmacogenomics
- pharmacognosia
- pharmacognosis
- pharmacognosist
- pharmacognostic
- pharmacognostical
- pharmacognostically
- pharmacognosy
- pharmacokinetic
- pharmacokinetically
- pharmacokinetics
- pharmacolite
- pharmacologic
- pharmacological
- pharmacologically
- pharmacologist
- pharmacology
- pharmacopedia
- pharmacopeia