skiv
English edit
Noun edit
skiv (plural skivs)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A sovereign (the coin).
- 1865, Edmund Yates, Running the Gauntlet:
- 'A sovereign,' she says. 'Make it two, and it's yours,' I says. So, after a little, she give me two skivs, and she took the bill and valked [sic] away vith it.
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary