One of the main characters of the webcomic El Goonish Shive, and arguably the most adorable of them, is a weresquirrel (among other things).
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Shive
//ʃaɪv//
Synonyms for "shive" (5 found)
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Translations
35 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- фили́я noun (slice)
- широка запушалка noun (flat, wide cork)
Czech
1 entries- pazdeří noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
Danish
1 entries- skive noun (slice)
Dutch
4 entries- leem noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
- scheef noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
- schijf noun (slice)
- snede noun (slice)
Estonian
2 entries- linaluu noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
- linaluud noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
Finnish
2 entries- päistär noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
- päistär noun (particle of impurity)
French
1 entries- chènevotte noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
German
4 entries- Brettschindel noun (beam or plank of split wood)
- Laufrolle noun (obsolete: sheave)
- Pfropf noun (flat, wide cork)
- Pfropfen noun (flat, wide cork)
Ingrian
1 entries- päissär noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
Italian
2 entries- canapule noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
- lisca noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
Polish
1 entries- paździerze noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- pozder noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
Slovene
3 entries- pazder noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
- pazderje noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
- pezdir noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
Spanish
2 entries- agramiza noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
- cañamiza noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
Swedish
1 entries- skävor noun (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Of a cut loafe to steale a shiue
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In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.
Source: wiktionary
If the conditioning continues to be fairly brisk, a wooden tut might appear to distort a little under the stress of the internal pressure, with the beer seeping out around the tut and shive.
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