Shive vs Chib - What's the difference?
shive | chib | Alternative forms |
A slice, especially of bread.
* 1980 , Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers :
(obsolete) A sheave.
A beam or plank of split wood.
A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole.
(obsolete) A splinter; a particle of fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
(paper-makin) A particle of impurity in finished paper.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (Vintage 2007), page 50:
* 2010 , ,
(Scotland, Geordie, slang) To shiv (stab).
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 61:
Shive is an alternative form of chib.
As nouns the difference between shive and chib
is that shive is a slice, especially of bread or shive can be (obsolete) a splinter; a particle of fluff on the surface of cloth or other material or shive can be or shive can be while chib is (scotland|geordie|slang) a shiv (makeshift knife).As a verb chib is
(scotland|geordie|slang) to shiv (stab).shive
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia shive) A parallel form of (sheave), from a (etyl) base which probably existed in (etyl) (though is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with (etyl) Scheibe, late (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.
Etymology 2
From a (etyl) base which probably existed in Old English (though is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with (etyl) Schebe, (etyl) scheef.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Variant of shiv.Noun
(en noun)- So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite history.
Etymology 4
See shivaNoun
A Life of Learning
- There are some cultural details in Schissel’s story that are specific to the Jewish community: the family sits shive (seven days of mourning for the dead), and the preference for silence at that time.
Derived terms
* sit shiveAnagrams
*chib
English
Alternative forms
* chiv, shiv, shiveVerb
- And if they had knives too, their gang had all knives and people were going to get chibbed .
References
*Scottish Vernacular Dictionary----