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Shie vs Shife - What's the difference?

shie | shife |

As a verb shie

is (to throw).

As an adjective shife is

(african american vernacular english) aggressive looking, tough.

shie

English

Verb

  • (to throw).
  • * Jeremy Bentham
    • a sort of cock, for him, in childish wantonness, to shie at.
    (Webster 1913)

    shife

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (African American Vernacular English) aggressive looking, tough.
  • * 1991 , "Bust Down", Nasty Bitch (rap song)
    • And he knew he was shife , he knew he was hype.
  • * 1996 , "UGK" (Chad Butler and Bernard Freeman), Diamonds and Wood (rap song)
    • These jealous niggas looking at me and my car so shife .
  • * 2004 , "Trae" (Frazier Thompson III), Let Me Live (rap song)
    • Let me live my life, y'all know y'all ain't right. / Niggas be so shife , can I do one thang.