vivers

[ vee-verz ]

plural nounChiefly Scot.

Origin of vivers

1530–40; <Middle French vivres, plural of vivre food, noun use of vivre to live <Latin vīvere;cf. viand

Then I put it in my coat tail pocket, but I was kept all the time on the qui vivers, afeerd sum pickpocket would steal it.
Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia | Seba Smith
Don Francisco de vivers, the elder of the two, was an inhabitant of Seville, of considerable wealth and excellent family.
The Last Look | W.H.G. Kingston
Among others, her former admirer, Don Francisco de vivers, was induced to visit her.
The Last Look | W.H.G. Kingston
Love is like folk,” says she; “it needs some kind of vivers.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) | Robert Louis Stevenson
Give me meal and water in the heel of my shoe and I would count it very good vivers for a fortnight.
The Shoes of Fortune | Neil Munro

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