chib

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /tʃɪb/
  • Rhymes: -ɪb

Noun

chib (plural chibs)

  1. (Scotland, Geordie, slang) A shiv (makeshift knife).

Verb

chib (third-person singular simple present chibs, present participle chibbing, simple past and past participle chibbed)

  1. (Scotland, Geordie, slang) To shiv (stab).
    • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 61:
      And if they had knives too, their gang had all knives and people were going to get chibbed.

References

Romani

Alternative forms
  • छीब

Etymology

From Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā, “tongue”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *ȷ́iźʰwáH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ĵiĵʰwáH (compare Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬰𐬎𐬎𐬁‎ (hizuuā)), Persian زوان‎ (zavân)), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. Compare Hindi जीभ (jībh, “tongue”) and Punjabi ਜੀਭ (jīb, “tongue”).

Noun

čhib f

  1. tongue
  2. language
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.