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▪ I. ˈsliving, vbl. n. Now dial.
[f. slive v.1]
1. A slash; the action of cutting.
c1400Anturs of Arth. xlviii. (Ireland MS.), He wend with a slyuyng, hade slayn him with slyȝt. c1440Promp. Parv. 459/2 Slyvynge, cuttynge a-wey, avulsio, abscisio.
2. A slip or cutting; a scion; a shoot or branch cut off. (Cf. slaving n. and sleaving.)
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) vii. 26 Men take plantes or slyfynges þeroff and sett þam in oþer placez. c1440Promp. Parv. 459/2 Slyvynge, of a tre or oþer lyke, fissula. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 76 Some are also set of the slips, or sliuinges. 1580Frampton Joyful News (1596) 134 There dooeth come from them [sc. buds] many round coddes or slyuinges. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. 390 The term sliving is more especially applied to a branch—usually of hedge-row trees—sliced off with the hatchet in ‘pleaching’ the hedge.
3. A slice.
1796Pegge Derbicisms Ser. i. 64 (E.D.S.), A great sliving of bread. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 307 Sliving, a slice of flesh.
▪ II. sliving, ppl. a.|ˈslaɪvɪŋ|
[f. slive v.2 + -ing2.]
Slow-moving, dilatory; sneaking; stealing imperceptibly.
Also in dialect use as a n., explained by Thoresby (1703) as ‘a lazy fellow’ and by Hutton (1781) as ‘a slovenly clown’.
1661K. W. Conf. Charac. Conceited Coxcombs (1860) 67 He would prove an unmatchable piece of sliving policy. 1710S. Centlivre Man's Bewitched iii. i, The sliving baggage will not come to a resolution yet. a1800Pegge Suppl. Grose s.v., A sliving fellow, one who loiters about with a bad intent. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 22 Ere sliving night around his journey threw Her circling curtains. c1909D. H. Lawrence Collier's Friday Night (1934) iii. 75 I'm not a fool, if you think so. I can pay you yet, you sliving bitch! 1913― Sons & Lovers iv. 66 What should go runnin' up my arm but a mouse... They'll get in your pocket an' eat your snap, if you'll let 'em..the slivin', nibblin' little nuisances. |