different between chive vs chide

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English cyve, from Old French cive, from Latin cepa (“onion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Noun

chive (plural chives)

1. A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
2. (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
3. (obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.
   • 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland, London: John Hunne, Book 3, Chapter 14, “Of English Saffron,”^[1]

     […] in the place wher he bled, Saffron was after found to grow, whereupon the people séeyng the color of the chiue as it stoode, (although I doubt not but it grewe there long before) adiudged it to come to the bloude of Crocus, and therefore they gaue it his name.

   • 1610, Edmund Bolton, The Elements of Armories, London: George Eld, Chapter 28, p. 156-157,^[2]

     […] to abate, and allay the fulnesse of red, we doe not see white vsed (as a colour too remote) but rather yellow, and that so farre-forth as some doe grinde a Chiue of Saffron with Vermillion, to make it the more pleasant, whereas white in like proportion mixed, would dimne, and decay it […]

   • 1633, John Gerard, The Herball or Generall Historie of Plants, London, Chapter 38, “Of Stitchwort,”^[3]

     The chiues or threds in the middle of the floure are sometimes of a reddish, or of a blackish colour.

   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Temple” in Hesperides, London: John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, pp. 104-105,^[4]

     The Saint, to which the most he prayes

     And offers Incense Nights and dayes,

     The Lady of the Lobster is,

     Whose foot-pace he doth stroak & kisse;

     And, humbly, chives of Saffron brings,

     For his most cheerfull offerings.

Translations

See also

• Chinese chives
• scallion
• shallot
• spring onion

References

• “chive” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
• Chives on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Allium schoenoprasum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Allium schoenoprasum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Allium schoenoprasum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• chive at USDA Plants database

Etymology 2

From Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).

Alternative forms

• chieve, chife, chiv

Noun

chive (plural chives)

1. (thieves' cant) A knife.
2. (thieves' cant) A file.
3. (thieves' cant) A saw.

Derived terms

• chive fencer (“street seller of cutlery”)
• shiv (“makeshift knife”)

Verb

chive (third-person singular simple present chives, present participle chiving, simple past and past participle chived)

1. (thieves' cant) To stab.
2. (thieves' cant) To cut.

Derived terms

• chive the darbies (“to cut off fetters”)
• chiving lay (“theft by cutting coach components”)
• chiving the froe (“theft by cutting women's pockets”)
• shiv (“to stab”)

References

• [Francis Grose] (1785) , “Chive”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC 1179630700.
• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) , “chive”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, page 246
• Farmer, John Stephen (1891) Slang and Its Analogues?^[9], volume 2, pages 97–98
• Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of the Underworld, London, Macmillan Co., 1949

Spanish

Verb

chive

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of chivar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of chivar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of chivar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of chivar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English chiden (“to chide, rebuke, disapprove, criticize; complain, grumble, dispute; argue, debate, dispute, quarrel”), from Old English ??dan (“to chide, reprove, rebuke; blame, contend, strive, quarrel, complain”). Cognate with German kiden (“to sound”); Old High German k?dal (“wedge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Verb

chide (third-person singular simple present chides, present participle chiding, simple past chid or chided or chode, past participle chid or chided or chidden)

1. (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Translations

Anagrams

• chedi