1896 E. Turner Little Larrikin iv. 40 An angel in little blue knickerbockers playing knifey on a heap of builders' sand.

1901 Sc. Antiquary 16 49 ‘Bonnety’ and ‘Knify’..are the ‘Hatty’ and ‘Knifey’ which..the Edinburgh Academy once knew so well.

1934 G. M. Martin Dundee Worthies 179 ‘Knifie’..[was] played with a knife with open blade on any grass plot.

1939 F. L. Combs Harrowed Toad 90 Another fieldsman who may have seen the ball but had been indulging spasmodically in ‘knifey’.

1951 Banffshire Advertiser 16 Aug. I eest tae be the best knifey player in the toonie squeel.

1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games vii. 221 The first boy throws a knife..so that it sticks in the ground not more than twelve inches to the left or right of one of his opponent's feet. The other boy..plucks the knife out of the ground, and moves his nearest foot to the place where the knife went in... Throughout Scotland..it is ‘Knifie’.

1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed xii. 113 A game of ‘knifey’ began with Rose's front door as target. Bayonets and commando knives..sank into the woodwork.

1906 G. A. B. Dewar Faery Year 258 Hovering, he presents to the wind but a knifey edge of wing.

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 459/2 Knifey, (of a person, esp. a customer) that cuts things painfully fine when dealing in the money-market: stockbrokers'.

1955 H. Smith Horseman through Six Reigns xix. 192 Withers that are neither rounded nor knifey.