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chive
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)
- A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
- (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
- (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.
- 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland, London: John Hunne, Book 3, Chapter 14, “Of English Saffron,”[1]
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)
- (thieves' cant) A knife.
- (thieves' cant) A file.
- (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)
- (thieves' cant) To stab.
- (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
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of chivar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of chivar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of chivar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of chivar.
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chivs
English
Noun
chivs
- plural of chiv
Verb
chivs
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chiv
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