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Date: 1800-1900
Origin: divide

divvy

2 verb
     
divvy2 past tense and past participle divvied, present participle divvying, third person singular divvies

divvy something ↔ up

phrasal verb
to share something between several people:
We can divvy up the profits between us.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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