cheve

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French chevir. See chievance.

Verb

cheve (third-person singular simple present cheves, present participle cheving, simple past and past participle cheved)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete, dialectal) To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed.
    to cheve well in a enterprise
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cheve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French cheveux (“hair”).

Noun

cheve

  1. hair

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French cive.

Noun

cheve

  1. Alternative form of cyve

Etymology 2

From chef +‎ -e (adjective inflected form suffix).

Adjective

cheve

  1. Inflected form of chef

Spanish

Etymology

Apocopic alteration of cerveza (“beer”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃebe/, [ˈt͡ʃeβe]

Noun

cheve f (plural cheves)

  1. (slang, Mexico) beer

Synonyms
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