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Stives vs Stiver - What's the difference?

stives | stiver |

As nouns the difference between stives and stiver

is that stives is (obsolete) stews; a brothel while stiver is (historical) a small dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder.

stives

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • (obsolete) stews; a brothel
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)

    stiver

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder.
  • Anything of small value.
  • * 1761 , , The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , vol. 4 (Penguin 2003, p. 223):
    • ’Tis not worth a single stiver , said the bandy-leg'd drummer.
  • *1851 ,
    • [A]ll hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays . . . . And though the 275th lay was what they call a rather long lay, yet it was better than nothing; and if we had a lucky voyage, might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I would wear out on it, not to speak of my three years' beef and board, for which I would not have to pay one stiver .

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