- a variation of shiv.
chiv
Britishnoun
verb
Etymology
Origin of chiv
C17: perhaps from Romany chiv blade
Example Sentences
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If you chiv tutes pīros pal-o-the-waver—your kusto pīro kaired bongo, jallin’ with it a rikkorus, an’ the waver pīro straightus—your patteran’ll dick as if a bongo-herroed mush had been apré the puvius.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
Still, rig a beard around that chiv of yours, and it's Solo to the life.'
From In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson
To chiv in English Gipsy means as much and more than to fix in America, in fact, it is applied to almost any kind of action.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
It fer us to chiv His Trousers. 'n' to round the stragglers in.
From 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse by Edward Dyson
In winter the men begin to chiv the kosh, or cut wood—i.e., they make butchers’ skewers and clothes-pegs.
From Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement by George Smith
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