- a variation of shiv.
chiv
Example Sentences
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“An’ if you chiv lully dantymengro where juckos kair panny, a’ter they soom it they won’t jāl adoi chichi no moreus, an’ won’t mutter in dovo tan, and you can keep it cleanus.”
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
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
Wafri bāk kairs A choro mush ta jāl alay, But it mukks a boro mush To chiv his kokero apré.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
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 Courtney Ryley Cooper
It fer us to chiv His Trousers. 'n' to round the stragglers in.
From 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse by Edward Dyson
