trev

See also: Trev

English

Etymology 1

New Zealand slang sense: from characters named Trev in a television comedy of the 1970s. See Fred Dagg.

Pronunciation

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Noun

trev (plural trevs)

1. (New Zealand, slang) A farm assistant or other rural worker; an ordinary country bloke.
2. (British, slang) An urban lower-class youth.

   Synonym: chav

Etymology 2

Noun

trev (plural trevs)

1. Alternative form of tref (“ancient hamlet”)
   • 1890, Frederic Seebohm, The English Village Community, page 204:

     This fixes for us the number of homesteads or tyddyns in the trev.

Anagrams

• Tver, vert, trve, Tver', 'vert

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *treβ, from Proto-Celtic *trebā, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-. Doublet of tre.

Noun

trev (collective, singulative treven f)

1. farmsteads, homesteads

   Synonyms: trevow, trevethow

Derived terms

• trevas (“harvest”)
• trevbark (“housing estate”)
• treveglos (“churchtown, village”)
• trevek, trevel (“urban”)
• trevelhe (“urbanise”, verb)
• trevelheans (“urbanisation”)
• trevesiga (“settle”, verb)
• trevesiges f (“countrywoman, villager”)
• trevesik m (“countryman, villager”)
• treveth (“homestead, housing estate”)

Mutation

Mutation of trev

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
trevas	drevas	threvas	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Welsh

Noun

trev

1. obsolete spelling of tref