cheve

From Middle English cheven, from Old French chevir. See chievance.

cheve (third-person singular simple present cheves, present participle cheving, simple past and past participle cheved)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, dialect) To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed.

   to cheve well in an enterprise

   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. , (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     All things went well and chieved prosperously

• “cheve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• veche

From French cheveux (“hair”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃeve/

cheve

1. hair

cheve

1. Alternative form of cyve

From chef +‎ -e (adjective inflected form suffix).

cheve

1. inflection of chef:
   1. weak singular
   2. strong/weak plural

Apocopic alteration of cerveza (“beer”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃebe/
• Rhymes: -ebe
• Syllabification: che‧ve

cheve f (plural cheves)

1. (slang, Mexico) beer

   Synonyms: cerveza, (slang) chela