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chiv; chive
verb
to cut someone with a knife or a razor UK, 1812
Multiple variant spellings, including “shive,” “shiv” and “shife.” Probably from “shive” (to slice bread), 1570; originally seen in this sense as “chive,” 1725; “chiv” is not recorded until 1812; “shiv” and “shive” are C20 variations that hark back to the word’s origins.- I always wondered if he had dipped his head and grinned before he started chiving on him. — Chester Himes, Cast the First Stone, p. 202, 1952
- [R]espectable screwsmen [thieves] daren’t walk home from their gaffs at night for fear being chivved by teddy-boys, and left to bleed to death over the ragwort in a bomb-site[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 41, 1956
- a bit nervous of the ponces who’d shive them without thinking — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 33, 1962
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 102, 1996
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