Bruvver

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /bɹʌvÉ™(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ÊŒvÉ™(ɹ)

Origin

Representing the Cockney pronunciation of brother.

Full definition of bruvver

Noun

1. (Cockney slang) Brother.
• 1953, Ezra Pound, letter to Margaret Anderson, reproduced in Thomas L. Scott et al. (editors), Pound/The Little Review: the Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson, New Directions Books (1988), page 314:Gurdjieff I thot a man an a bruvver, but NObuddy is goin to swallow Ouspensky
• 1992, Harry Bowling, The girl from Cotton Lane, Headline Book Publishing:Gawd knows when yer bruvver's gonna get married.

Derived terms

• bruv