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 Leland, Charles Godfrey
An English rogue will say, “to shove the queer,” meaning to pass counterfeit money, while the Gipsy term would be to chiv wafri lovvo, or lovey.
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
Sī tu latchessa pāsh o lon-doeyav o boro matcheskro-bar, te o puro curro, chiv lis keti kan, shunesa godli.
From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey
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 Smith, George
