Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a fool, a socially unacceptable person; also in attrib. use.

1979		Ian Dury ‘Oh Mr Peanut’ 🎵 You call me a divvy and I think you’re a snake.
1980		J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 295: If anyone goes too far with the divvies the bucks’ll take their part regardless.
1990		Stage (London) 13 Dec. 22/3: We are now steadily building up our own dictionary of Scouser colloquialisms. Professor Phil has decided that we [...] are all divvies and no-marks.
1997		B. Morrison As If (1998) 167: Mark, who’d been born with a cleft palate [...][ was taunted as a ‘divvie’ by other kids.
2003		N. Griffiths Stump 37: Divvy. Don’t know what he’s missin.
2011		J.J. Connolly Viva La Madness 69: A silly hat and great big divvy glasses.
2013		K. Sampson Killing Pool 15: Gang of little divvies them, love. Couldn’t be arsed with them .