chib

• chiv, shiv, shive

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃɪb/
• Rhymes: -ɪb

chib (plural chibs)

1. (Scotland, Geordie, slang) A shiv (makeshift knife).

chib (third-person singular simple present chibs, present participle chibbing, simple past and past participle chibbed)

1. (Scotland, Geordie, slang) To shiv (stab).
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 61:

     And if they had knives too, their gang had all knives and people were going to get chibbed.

• Scottish Vernacular Dictionary

• छीब

From Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā, “tongue”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *ȷ́iźʰwáH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ĵiĵʰwáH (compare Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬰𐬎𐬎𐬁‎ (hizuuā)), Persian زوان‎ (zavân)), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. Compare Hindi जीभ (jībh, “tongue”) and Punjabi ਜੀਭ (jīb, “tongue”).

čhib f

1. tongue
2. language