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Oliver vs Fliver - What's the difference?

oliver | fliver |

As a proper noun oliver

is (male given name).

As a noun fliver is

.

oliver

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * : Act I, Scene II:
    • England all Olivers and Rowlands bred / During the time Edward the Third did reign.
  • * 1838 :
    • 'My name is Oliver', sir,' replied the little invalid: with a look of great astonishment. ''''Oliver''',' said Mr. Brownlow; ''''Oliver''' what? '''Oliver''' White, eh?' 'No, sir, Twist, ' Oliver Twist.' 'Queer name!' said the old gentleman. 'What made you tell the magistrate your name was White?'
  • * 1991 , Talking It Over , Jonathan Cape, ISBN 0224031570, page 13 :
    • And Oliver suits me, don't you find? It rather goes with my dark, dark hair and kissable ivory teeth, my slim waist, my panache and my linen suit with the ineradicable stain of Pinot Noir.
  • A town in British Columbia, Canada.
  • A ghost town in California.
  • A city in city in Screven County, Georgia.
  • A CDP in Pennsylvania.
  • A village in Wisconsin.

    • Derived terms

    * Oliver Springs * Bath Oliver * a Roland for an Oliver

    Related terms

    * Ollie * Olivia

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) Drunk, pissed.

    • Synonyms

    * Oliver Twist ----

    fliver

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1943 , Ivar Lund, The end of Lucifer's tail , page 348:
    • He had seated himself in the farmer's old fliver , [and] ridden for some miles.
  • * 2002 , Hartwick New York -- Heart of Otsego County , page 244:
    • A natural born mechanic and tinkerer, he kept many an old fliver on the road.
  • * 2002 , William V. Reynolds, Call of the Pines , page 256:
    • "Come on old fliver . Don't let us down now," he coaxed. But the faithful machine had gone as far as it could. The fuel mix had burned
  • until the last minute. Now the moisture in the tank was too much for the firing system.
  • * 2008 , Isaac Hallenberg, Rustbelt Fables , page 106:
    • But with my new job I was able to buy an old fliver down at Able Andy's car lot.
  • * 2008 , Eds James Lee Hutchinson, Bombs Away: WWII Eighth Air Force Stories , page 270:
    • [...] the twenty-one inch wheels handled the poor roads and the dependable old "fliver " had enough steel in it to build two of today's cars.