Wiv

//wɪv// name, prep, slang

name, prep, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Preposition
  1. 1
    Pronunciation spelling of with. alt-of, informal, nonstandard, pronunciation-spelling

    "Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Wuhan Institute of Virology: a research institute on virology in Wuhan administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, founded in 1956. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "“This action aims to ensure that WIV does not receive another dollar of federal funding,” an HHS spokesperson said in a statement. “The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s biosafety protocols.”"

Example

More examples

"Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot."

Etymology

Alteration of with due to th-fronting.

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