slive
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of slive
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To cut; split; separate.
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verb
- (dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To cut; split; separate.
- (Scotland, dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.
- (Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal)To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.
- (slang)To live life to the fullest while being successful, glamorous, and confident.
noun
- (dialectal)A slice or sliver; slip, chip.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English sliven, from Old English slīfan (“to cleave, split”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīban, from Proto-Germanic *slībaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”).
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