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
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 Charles Godfrey Leland
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 Charles Godfrey Leland
Harry poured half a can of oil upon the bearings of the chiv wheel with almost loving tenderness.
From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper
Still, rig a beard around that chiv of yours, and it's Solo to the life.'
From In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson
