Shiv

//ʃɪv// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.
  2. 2
    A diminutive of the female given name Siobhan.

    "'Hiya, Shiv. It's Bobby Hogan here.' Detective Inspector Bobby Hogan. She'd asked him before not to call her Shiv. A lot of people tried it. Siobhan, pronounced Shi-vawn, shortened to Shiv. When people wrote her name down, it turned into all sorts of erroneous spellings. She remembered that Fairstone had called her 'Shiv' a few times, attempting familiarity. She hated it, and knew she should correct Hogan, but she didn't."

Noun
  1. 1
    A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). countable, slang

    "It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail—that graduate school of survival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks."

  2. 2
    a knife used as a weapon wordnet
  3. 3
    A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp. uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To stab (someone) with a shiv. slang, transitive

    "Anyway, that's how Jimmie came to be shivved and left to bleed out in the shower."

  2. 2
    To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon. broadly, slang, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).

Etymology 2

First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).

Etymology 3

Variant of Shiva, from Sanskrit शिव (Śivá, “the auspicious one”).

Etymology 4

From Siobhan and its other anglicised spellings.

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