shive
/ˈʃɪvə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A slice, especially of bread.
Example Sentences
- "Of a cut loafe to steale a shiue"
- "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."
- "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."
- "So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite history."
- "There are some cultural details in Schissel’s story that are specific to the Jewish community: the family sits shive (seven days of mourning for the dead), and the preference for silence at that time."
Etymology
A parallel form of sheave, from Middle English schyve, from Proto-West Germanic *skībā, from Proto-Germanic *skībǭ, presumably through an Old English *sċīfe (though it is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), brauðskífa (“slice of bread”) (whence Danish skive (“disc, slice”)), Dutch schijf (“disc, slice”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *skey-, schyve, *skībā, *skībǭ, *sċīfe, schyfe
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
sit shive