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Trivet vs Brivet - What's the difference?

trivet | brivet |

As a noun trivet

is a stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.

As a verb 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.

trivet

English

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Noun

(en noun)
  • a stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire
  • * 1994 ,
    • They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil.
  • a stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a hot coaster
  • A weaver's knife. See trevat.
    • (Knight)

    See also

    * as right as a trivet

    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.'