Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

civey

/ˈsɪvi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: civey
IPA: /ˈsɪvi/

13

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of chive sauce served with game or seafood.

Archaic; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In the kitchens the famous cooks were preparing menus which included, for one course alone: ballock broth, caudle ferry, lampreys en gelatine, oysters in civey, eels in sorré, baked trout, brawn in mustard, numbles of a hart, pigs farsed [...]."
"Were there served, as in former times, a wine of Grenache and roasts, veal pasties, pimpernel pasties, black pudding and sausages, hares in civey and cutlets, pea soup, salt meat and great joints, a soringue of eels and other fish..."
"White leeks, beef pasties, ducks and chines, hares and coneys in civey, a geneste (p. 174) of larks, great joints."

Etymology

From Middle English cyvee, from Old French civé; equivalent to chive + -ey.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: cyvee, civé

Usage

Inflected Forms

civy (alternative)

Homonyms

civvy

Questions

How do you pronounce civey?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɪvi/.
What does civey mean?: A kind of chive sauce served with game or seafood.
Where does civey come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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