Definitions
Wiktionary
- interj. Scotland An exclamation of astonishment or horror.
Etymologies
- Unknown (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One last word about the family's sad wee story from the courts - here in Irvine I don't recall us using the word "crivvens" at all, I only came across it in The Sunday Post - The Broons and Oor Wullie.”
“So fur crivvens sake hae a look at it an try an plug the electrical an magnetic in tae yer theories.”
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“And crivvens, the sturdy garment that helped generations of women, like Maw Broon, protect their clothes from the dust, splatters and splashes of daily housework, is making a come back.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crivvens’.
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scots words
gowk, wellkenspeckled, dowie, crivvens, clashmaclavers, kludgie, perjink, puddock, well-kenspeckled, gaberlunzie, wheesht, thrawn and 65 more...
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Nakoo's list of beautiful words.
Just about any word I like at the time.
razbliuto, anaxiphilia, lipothymous, inamorata, acushla, abulia, serendipity, alexithymia, quixotic, idiosyncratic, ad nauseam, equanimity and 305 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Broon words
Taken from new 'Private Eye' parody, 'The Broon-ites', celebrating the UK's soon-to-be prime minister. Lots of Scottish slang
scunner, nae, hoots, jings, whit, dae, wee, ole, bairns, isnae, oot, crivvens and 1 more...
Tweets
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garyth123 the kind of word the broons use Dec 14, 2008