cheve
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English cheven, from Old French chevir. See chievance.
Verb edit
cheve (third-person singular simple present cheves, present participle cheving, simple past and past participle cheved)
- (intransitive, obsolete, dialect) To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed.
- to cheve well in an enterprise
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book X.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
- All things went well and chieved prosperously
References edit
- “cheve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
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cheve
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
cheve
- Alternative form of cyve
Etymology 2 edit
From chef + -e (adjective inflected form suffix).
Adjective edit
cheve
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Apocopic alteration of cerveza (“beer”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cheve f (plural cheves)
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