different between stive vs snive

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

stive

1. (obsolete) A stew.
2. The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.

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   • 1867, The British Farmer's Magazine, Volum LII, New Series, page 231,

     The removal of the heated air, steam, stive, and flour from the millstones, is a proposition which does not appear to be more than sufficiently well understood.

Derived terms

• stive-box, stive-room

Verb

stive (third-person singular simple present stives, present participle stiving, simple past and past participle stived)

1. (Britain, dialect, intransitive) To be stifled or suffocated.
2. (transitive, sometimes with "up") To compress, to cram; to make close and hot; to render stifling.
   • 1641, Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert late Earl of Essex and George late Duke of Buckingham

     His chamber being commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.

   • 1796, Amelia Simmons, American Cookery, 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64,

     Let your cucumbers be ?mall, fre?h gathered, and free from ?pots; then make a pickle of ?alt and water, ?trong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ?kim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ?tive them down for twenty four hours; […] .

   • 1836, T. S. Davis (editor), Kitchen Poetry, Every Body's Album, Volume 1, page 172,

     And here I mist stay, / In this stived up kitchen to work all day.

   • 1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom, 1871, page 284,

     "Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.

Anagrams

• Vites

Danish

Adjective

stive

1. plural and definite singular attributive of stiv

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ive

Noun

stive f

1. plural of stiva

Anagrams

• vesti, vestì, viste

Middle English

Adjective

stive

1. Alternative form of stif

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

stive

1. definite singular of stiv
2. plural of stiv

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

stive

1. definite singular of stiv
2. plural of stiv

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: sn?v, IPA^(key): /sna?v/
• (UK) enPR: sn?v, IPA^(key): /sn??v/

Verb

snive (third-person singular simple present snives, present participle sniving, simple past and past participle snived)

1. Alternative spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested).

Anagrams

• Nevis, Viens, Vines, veins, vines, visne