chive

== English == === 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) A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion. (in the plural or attributive) The leaves of this plant used as a herb. (Trinidad and Tobago, dialect) The spring onion; the green onion; the scallion. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== scallion shallot spring onion ==== References ==== “chive” in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 8th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1973 (1974 printing), →OCLC. Chives on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Allium schoenoprasum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Allium schoenoprasum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Allium schoenoprasum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons chive at USDA Plants database “Caribbean Green Seasoning Recipe”, in Cooking with Ria‎[1], 3 March 2013 === Etymology 2 === From Middle English chive, chyve, variant of chith, chyth, from Old English ċīþ (“shoot, scion, sprout”). Doublet of chit and scion. ==== Alternative forms ==== chithe (obsolete), chire ==== Noun ==== chive (plural chives) A piece cut off; sliver. (botany, obsolete) The filament which supports the anther of a flower; stamen, especially of saffron. 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland, London: John Hunne, Book 3, Chapter 14, “Of English Saffron,”[2] […] 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. ===== Related terms ===== chism chit === Etymology 3 === From Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”). ==== Alternative forms ==== chieve, chife, chiv ==== Noun ==== chive (plural chives) (thieves' cant) A knife. (thieves' cant) A file. (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) (thieves' cant) To stab. Synonyms: jab, shiv; see also Thesaurus:stab (thieves' cant) To cut. Synonyms: incise, snithe; see also Thesaurus: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 […], volume 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. == Norman == === Etymology === From Old French cive. === Pronunciation === === Noun === chive f (plural chives) chive == Spanish == === Verb === chive inflection of chivar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative