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5-letter words (1 found)

CHIVE,

4-letter words (4 found)

CHIV,CIVE,HIVE,VICE,

3-letter words (8 found)

CHE,CHI,ECH,HIC,HIE,ICE,ICH,VIE,

2-letter words (4 found)

CH,EH,HE,HI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from chive according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of chive

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Definitions and meaning of chive

chive

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃaɪv/
  • Rhymes: -aɪv

Etymology 1

From Middle English chive~cyve, from Old French chive~cive, from Latin cēpa (“onion”).

Alternative forms

  • cive (obsolete), chithe

Noun

chive (plural chives)

  1. A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
  2. (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
  3. (obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.
    • 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland, London: John Hunne, Book 3, Chapter 14, “Of English Saffron,”[1]
      […] in the place wher he bled, Saffron was after found to grow, whereupon the people séeyng the color of the chiue as it stoode, (although I doubt not but it grewe there long before) adiudged it to come to the bloude of Crocus, and therefore they gaue it his name.
  4. (Trinidad and Tobago, dialect) The spring onion; The green onion; the scallion.
Derived terms
Translations

See also

  • Chinese chives
  • scallion
  • shallot
  • spring onion

References

  • “chive” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
  • Chives on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Allium schoenoprasum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Allium schoenoprasum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Allium schoenoprasum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • chive at USDA Plants database
  • “Caribbean Green Seasoning Recipe”, in Cooking with Ria‎[4], 2013 March 3

Etymology 2

From Middle English chive, chyve, variant of chith, chyth, from Old English ċīþ (“shoot, scion, sprout”).

Alternative forms

  • chithe (obsolete), chire

Noun

chive (plural chives)

  1. A piece cut off; sliver.
  2. (botany) The filament which supports the anther of a flower; stamen.
Related terms
  • chism
  • chit

Etymology 3

From Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).

Alternative forms

  • chieve, chife, chiv

Noun

chive (plural chives)

  1. (thieves' cant) A knife.
  2. (thieves' cant) A file.
  3. (thieves' cant) A saw.
Derived terms
  • chive fencer (“street seller of cutlery”)
  • shiv (“makeshift knife”)

Verb

chive (third-person singular simple present chives, present participle chiving, simple past and past participle chived)

  1. (thieves' cant) To stab.
  2. (thieves' cant) To cut.
Derived terms
  • chive the darbies (“to cut off fetters”)
  • chiving lay (“theft by cutting coach components”)
  • chiving the froe (“theft by cutting women's pockets”)
  • shiv (“to stab”)

References

  • [Francis Grose] (1788) “Chive”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC.
  • Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “chive”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volumes I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 246.
  • John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1891) “chive”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume II, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, pages 97–98.
  • Eric Partridge (1949) A Dictionary of the Underworld, London: Macmillan Co.

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Verb

chive

  1. inflection of chivar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org