To divide up profits. A Divvy. A dividing up.
1890. The chiefs have large families, and the “divvies” are inadequate for their support.—The Nation (N.Y.), April 10. (N.E.D.)
1890. Divvy commish with you…. I—ah—might divvy with you, though, to make a trade.—Van Dyke, ‘Millionaires of a Day,’ pp. 134, 136.
1909. Unless the [spoilsmen] had struck hands with the Democrats on the basis of an equal “divvy.”—N.Y. Evening Post, Feb. 8.
