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kiver (third-person singular simple present kivers, present participle kivering, simple past and past participle kivered)

  1. (archaic, dialect) To cover.

Noun

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kiver (plural kivers)

  1. (archaic, dialect) Cover.
  2. A shallow wooden vessel or tub.

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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ki- +‎ ver

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkivɛr]
  • Hyphenation: ki‧ver
  • Rhymes: -ɛr

Verb

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kiver

  1. (transitive, of clothing, rugs) to beat (dust out of)
  2. (transitive) to knock out
    kiveri a pipájából a hamutto knock the cinders from one's pipe
  3. (transitive) to get out
    Nem tudom kiverni a fejemből.I can't get it out of my head.
  4. (transitive) to encrust (inset or affix decorative materials upon a surface)
  5. (slang, with transitive suffixes) to masturbate, jerk off

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  • kiver in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Etymology

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From Middle English keveren, from Old French covrir, from Latin cooperīre, present active infinitive of cooperiō.

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Verb

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kiver (simple past kivert)

  1. to cover
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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 50