Steved vs Stived - What's the difference?
steved | stived |
(steve)
A diminutive of Steven and Stephen, also used as a formal male given name.
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(stive)
(obsolete) A stew.
The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
* 1867 , The British Farmer's Magazine , Volum LII, New Series,
To be stifled or suffocated.
To compress, to cram; to make close and hot; to render stifling.
* Sir H. Wotton
* 1796 , Amelia Simmons, , 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition,
* 1836 , T. S. Davis (editor), Kitchen Poetry'', ''Every Body's Album , Volume 1,
* 1851 , , Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom , 1871,
As verbs the difference between steved and stived
is that steved is past tense of steve while stived is past tense of stive.steved
English
Verb
(head)Steve
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Quotations
* 1989 Ann Beattie: Picturing Will , Random House, ISBN 0394569873, page 67: *: His first name was probably Steve' or Ed. No, there were no more ' Steves or Eds in New York. They were now Steven or Edward, whether they were gay or straight. If they had money, they didn't have a nickname. Everybody was into high seriousness, so that now even dogs were named Humphrey and Raphael. * 1956 : Peyton Place , UPNE, 1999, ISBN 1555534007, Book Three,Chapter 13, *: Allison made a careful note of the address and within the hour she had met, decided she liked, and moved in with a girl of twenty who called herself Steve Wallace. *: "Don't call me Stephanie", Steve had said. "I don't know why it should, but being called Stephanie always makes me feel like something pale and dull out of Jane Austen." English diminutives of male given namesstived
English
Verb
(head)stive
English
Noun
- (De Colange)
page 231,
- The removal of the heated air, steam, stive , and flour from the millstones, is a proposition which does not appear to be more than sufficiently well understood.
Derived terms
* stive-box, stive-roomVerb
(stiv)- His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.
page 64,
- Let your cucumbers be ?mall, fre?h gathered, and free from ?pots; then make a pickle of ?alt and water, ?trong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ?kim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ?tive them down for twenty four hours;.
page 172,
- And here I mist stay, / In this stived up kitchen to work all day.
page 284,
- "Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.