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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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bivi
,
bivvy
noun
a small tent
20-
.
etymology:
from
bivouac tent
‘military term for a small one- or two-person tent’; attested by
BS in TDITA
and
SR
note:
Canadian Paul Pope (2013) cites the form
bivvie
‘a bivouac tent’.