chiv

Example Sentences

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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 Leland, Charles Godfrey

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

Lel’em and tove ’em and chiv ’em adrée the kávi, with panny an’ a bitti lun. 

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