Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). · A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo stab (someone) with a shiv. · To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.
First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).
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- Derivation mentionchiverom
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