shiv

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). countable,slang
    — It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail—that graduate school of survival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks.
  2. A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To stab (someone) with a shiv. slang,transitive
    — Anyway, that's how Jimmie came to be shivved and left to bleed out in the shower.
  2. To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon. broadly,slang,transitive

词形变化

shivs plural chib alternative,Geordie,Scotland chiv alternative,Geordie,Scotland shive alternative shivs present,singular,third-person shivving participle,present shivved participle,past shivved past chib alternative,Geordie,Scotland chiv alternative,Geordie,Scotland shive alternative

词汇关系

衍生词

词源

词源 1
First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).
词源 2
First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).
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