- a variation of shiv.
chiv
Britishnoun
verb
Etymology
Origin of chiv
C17: perhaps from Romany chiv blade
Example Sentences
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He went to tinkering with the big chiv wheel then, supported on its heavy timbers, and over which the cable must pass to allow the skip to travel on its rails down the shaft.
From The Cross-Cut by Cooper, Courtney Ryley
Ratfelo rinkeno weilgorus cav acoi: you might chiv lis sore drey teero putsi.
From Romano Lavo-Lil: word book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy language by Borrow, George Henry
Chiv, chib, or chipe, in Rommany, mean a tongue, inferring scolding, and chiv anything sharp-pointed, as for instance a dagger, or goad or knife.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Still, rig a beard around that chiv of yours, and it's Solo to the life.'
From In the Roaring Fifties by Dyson, Edward
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