chiv

Example Sentences

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Still, rig a beard around that chiv of yours, and it's Solo to the life.'

From In the Roaring Fifties by Dyson, Edward

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 Cooper, Courtney Ryley

And I know how to pen dukkerin, lel dūdikabin te chiv o manzin apré latti.”

From The Gypsies 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

If you chiv tutes pīros pal-o-the-waver—your kusto pīro kaired bongo, jallin’ with it a rikkorus, an’ the waver pīro straightus—your patteran’ll dick as if a bongo-herroed mush had been apré the puvius. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey