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chive

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Is chive a Scrabble word?

Yes, chive is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 13 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of chive?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (in the plural or attributive) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.Examples: "Chive herb. (attributive use)"; "What a splendid pie, pizza-pizza pie / Every minute, every second, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy / Pepperoni and green peppers, mushrooms, olive, chives"attributivein-plural

2. (Trinidad and Tobago, dialect) The spring onion; the green onion; the scallion.Trinidad-and-Tobagodialectal

noun (English)

1. (botany, obsolete) The filament which supports the anther of a flower; stamen, especially of saffron.Examples: "1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland, London: John Hunne, Book 3, Chapter 14, “Of English Saffron,” […] in the place wher he bled, Saffron was after found to grow, whereupon the people séeyng the color of the chiue as it stoode, (although I doubt not but it grewe there long before) adiudged it to come to the bloude of Crocus, and therefore they gaue it his name."; "[…] to abate, and allay the fulnesse of red, we doe not see white vsed (as a colour too remote) but rather yellow, and that so farre-forth as some doe grinde a Chiue of Saffron with Vermillion, to make it the more pleasant, whereas white in like proportion mixed, would dimne, and decay it […]"; "The chiues or threds in the middle of the floure are ſometimes of a reddiſh, or of a blackiſh colour."obsolete

noun (English)

1. (thieves' cant) A knife.Examples: "For when that he hath nubbed as, / And our friends tip him no cole, / He takes his chive and cuts us down, / And tips us into a hole."; "None of us know'd then—though the grabbing at Nan Turner's came off that very night—as Polly was the cause o' that 'ere, till it vos blown here at the Gate by some of the coves. Vell, she nammused, as you may guess, but fust poor old Madge Rhodes got a chive in her breather from Black Gil."; "On the Boxing Day after I came out I got stabbed in the chest by a pal of mine who had done a schooling. We was out with one another all the day getting drunk, so he took a liberty with me, and I landed him one on the conk (nose), so we had a fight, and he put the chive (knife) into me."

2. (thieves' cant) A file.

3. (thieves' cant) A saw.

verb (English)

1. (thieves' cant) To stab.Examples: "Adieu to Haul-Cly, adieu to stopping Coaches, and adieu to all the hurry-scurry of Foot-Scampering, filing, chiving, milling, and sneaking[…]"; "He was as good a man as Jacky at any weapon that could be named, and if Jacky were game for a chiving (stabbing) match, he (Kavanagh) was ready for him."; "After the place got well where I was chived, me and another screwed a place at Stoke Newington"Synonyms: jab, shiv, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin

2. (thieves' cant) To cut.Synonyms: incise, snithe, carve, chive, cut, incide, incise, lacerate

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "chive"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "chive"?

Scrabble
13 points
C3
H4
I1
V4
E1
Words With Friends
14 points
C4
H3
I1
V4
E1

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