Lexicographical Neighbors of Chived
Literary usage of Chived
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dialect of the English Gypsies by Bath Charles Smart, Henry Thomas Crofton (1875)
"... Remember ; lit., put it into your head chived upon, Cheated ; lit., put upon,
imposed on chived to ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1879)
"After the place got well where I was chived, me and another screwed a place at
Stoke Newington, and we got some squeeze (silk) dresses and two ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"After the place got well where I was chived, me and another screwed a place, at
Stoke Newington, and we got some squeeze (silk) dresses, and two sealskin ..."
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