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Brivet vs Brevet - What's the difference?

brivet | brevet |

As verbs the difference between brivet and brevet

is that brivet is to wander an area, or look through items, without specific purpose or to satisfy idle curiosity, especially in a furtive and illicit manner while brevet is to promote by brevet.

As a noun brevet is

a military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay.

brivet

English

Alternative forms

* brivit

Verb

(brivett)
  • (intransitive, British, West Midlands) To wander an area, or look through items, without specific purpose or to satisfy idle curiosity, especially in a furtive and illicit manner.
    • Once Melanie had left the house, I entered her bedroom and began to brivet around.
  • * 1920 , Eric Leadbitter, Shepherd's warning , page 148
    • And all the time she'd be brivetting about on the sly with any good-for-nothing young rascals she could get hold on.

    Usage notes

    * Particularly prevalent in the regional dialect of the West Midlands of England, and the Welsh border area. * Most often applied to a child's behaviour or that of pets and other animals. * Also used in the Gloucestershire/Wiltshire border area in the context of jumble sales, Women's Institutes or Church 'sales of work'

    References

    * Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years; Founded on the Publications of the English Dialect Society and on a Large Amount of Material Never Before Printed , Oxford University Press (1970), page 398: *: Brivet , a word often applied to children when they wander about aimlessly and turn over things. * Notes and Queries , Oxford University Press (1899), page 329: *: “Briveting.”—A friend of mine, a native of Oxford, in the course of conversation remarked, in reference to something for which he had been searching, that he had been “briveting ” about London. Never having heard of the term before, and not * Collections historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire , , the Powys-land Club (1874), page 122: *: Brivit , to ferret after or search for a thing. A person told me that a certain discovery was made whilst a drawer was being brivited; ie, whilst its contents were being thoroughly inspected. * Horace Harman, Buckinghamshire dialect , S. R. Publishers (1970), ISBN 9780854095810, page 141: *: BRIVIT — To fidget. Records of Bucks (VII, 288) gives the meaning as "to rummage," quoting its use at Winslow. * Bye-gones, relating to Wales and the Border Counties , [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qNgvAAAAMAAJ] (1907), page 54: *: A Shrewsbury clergyman lately heard the following in his parish: — 'Somebody's been "briviting " in my drawers. I do not know where anything is.'

    brevet

    English

    (wikipedia brevet)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay.
  • A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity, as in France.
  • An organized, long-distance bicycle ride — not a race, but a test of endurance — which follows a designated but unmarked route passing through check points.

    • Verb

  • To promote by brevet.
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