vivers

American  

[vee-verz] / ˈvi vərz /

plural noun

Chiefly Scot.

1. victuals; foodstuffs.

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Etymology

Origin of vivers

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

Example Sentences

Other troubles they had, more sensibly felt than the coarse quality of the vivers.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

"Love is like folk," says she, "it needs some kind of vivers."

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

"Go to, go to," said the host; "'fore gad, if my face took but a tithe of the good vivers to keep it in colour that thine doth, I were altogether a ruined landlord."

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

An' there was a waddin'! sic vivers an' drinks, Sic fiddlin' an' pipin', sic dancin' an' jinks; The haggis e'en hotched to the piper it's lane; 'It's a' weel that ends weel,' quo Tipperty's Jean.

From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick

The “fearing a famine” is applied to people gulping down solid vivers without a word, as if the ten lean kine began to-morrow.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis