English

Proper noun

Shiv

1. A male given name mainly used in India.

Etymology 2

From Siobhan and its other anglicised spellings.

Proper noun

Shiv

1. A diminutive of the female given name Siobhan.
   • 2003 Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood, Orion, ISBN 0-75285-110-1, page 19:

     'Hiya, Shiv. It's Bobby Hogan here.' Detective Inspector Bobby Hogan. She'd asked him before not to call her Shiv. A lot of people tried it. Siobhan, pronounced Shi-vawn, shortened to Shiv. When people wrote her name down, it turned into all sorts of erroneous spellings. She remembered that Fairstone had called her 'Shiv' a few times, attempting familiarity. She hated it, and knew she should correct Hogan, but she didn't.

English

Alternative forms

• chib, chiv (Scotland, Geordie)
• shive

Noun

shiv ‎(plural shivs)

1. A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
2. A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.

Synonyms

• (improvised stabbing weapon): shank (slang)

Translations

Verb

shiv ‎(third-person singular simple present shivs, present participle shivving, simple past and past participle shivved)

1. To stab someone with a shiv.
2. (by extension) To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.

Synonyms

shank (slang)

Translations

Anagrams

• IHVS