shiv

See also: Shiv

English

A Soviet-era Russian shiv.

Alternative forms

Etymology

First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (knife), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (knife, dagger, blade).[1][2][3][4]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɪv/
  • Rhymes: -ɪv

Noun

shiv (plural shivs)

  1. A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
  2. A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.

Synonyms

  • (improvised stabbing weapon): shank (slang)

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Verb

shiv (third-person singular simple present shivs, present participle shivving, simple past and past participle shivved)

  1. To stab someone with a shiv.
  2. (by extension) To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.

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References

  1. shiv” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019, retrieved 6 July 2017: “"a razor," 1915, variant of chive, thieves' cant word for "knife" (1670s), of unknown origin.”.
  2. shiv” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
  3. shiv” in Michael Agnes, editor-in-chief, Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th edition, Cleveland, Oh.: Wiley, 2010, →ISBN; reproduced on the Collins English Dictionary, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers, retrieved 6 July 2017: “Word origin of 'shiv': earlier chiv, prob. < Romany chiv, blade”.
  4. shiv” (US) / “shiv” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press. "Probably from Romany chiv ‘blade’."

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