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Definition of Spivs
1. spiv [n] - See also: spiv
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spivs
Literary usage of Spivs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"Along with all this feebleness, ther* ivas an apparent obstinacy, aim»: doggedness,
of resolution, to take bis own way with the Civil List, in spivs of the ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1864)
"... in disguise, roaming as individuals or banding with other brigands, and living
by stealing anil plundering, they will be treated as spivs or robbers, ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"The roving Gaul, to hs own hounds ri-'train'd, Learns to incamp within his native
ln-n«l, Hut soon as the victorious host he spivs, From hill to hill, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1838)
"For beauty and might are my spoil, I ween ; Though the lip be red, and the leaf
be green ; No spivs I have in my mouldy cave, To tell the terrors which they ..."
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