What does chive mean?
Chive means A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion..
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/t͡ʃaɪv/ · noun
A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion..
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
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.
The Saint, to which the most he prayes And offers Incense Nights and dayes, The Lady of the Lobster is, Whose foot-pace he doth stroak & kisse; And, humbly, chives of Saffron brings, For his most cheerfull offerings.
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.
Use chive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chive means A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion..
Common synonyms include jab, shiv, chef, chib.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Chive herb. (attributive use)
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