flivver
/ˈflɪv.ɚ/noun
flivver is a noun meaning “An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-I-V-V-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flivver is flivvers.
What does flivver mean?
noun
- 1
CanadaUScolloquialdatedAn automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
- 2
CanadaUScolloquialdatedA Ford Model T.
- 3
USderogatoryslangA destroyer of the United States Navy with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flivver?
- US /ˈflɪv.ɚ/
- UK /ˈflɪv.ə(ɹ)/
Flivver has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flivver
- flivvers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flivver?
Flivver appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flivver come from?
Unknown, early 20th c.. A book titled "At the Front in a Flivver" was published in 1917. Cartoonist Tad Dorgan in 1919 claimed to have created the term in his comic strip Judge Rummy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).