| 释义 |
shiveau dial. Now rare or Obs. exc. as shivoo.|ʃɪˈvəʊ|
Also 8 chevaux, 9 chiveau, shebo, sheevo.
[Origin unknown.]
= shivoo.
1798C. Cathcart Let. 6 May in Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words (1925) 255 We have just left Gibraltar... Sir John Orde gave a grand chevaux to which he was so good as to invite me. 1828‘Jon Bee’ Living Pict. Lond. ii. 83 A pressing invitation to what he calls a ‘Chiveau’, or merry dinner. 1849A. Harris Emigrant Family I. vii. 114 A ‘shiveau’ at the hut. 1862C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds 402 Sheevo, a shindy. ‘A bonny sheevo thuh wor.’ 1877F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 123/2 We'd a meetin i vesthry las' neet aboot a new cess, and them at didn't want yan kick'd up a riglar shebo. 1880M. A. Courtney Gloss. W. Cornwall 50/2 Shee-vo, a disturbance; a row. ‘There was such a grand shee-vo.’ |