screeve
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skɹiːv/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːv
Etymology 1
In view of the slang nature of the term, probably from Polari screeve (“write”), from Irish scríobh, eventually from Latin scrībō (“write”). Doublet of shrive.
Verb
screeve (third-person singular simple present screeves, present participle screeving, simple past and past participle screeved)
- (obsolete, UK, slang) To write.
- (obsolete, UK, slang) To draw with chalks on a pavement or sidewalk.
- (obsolete, UK, slang) To write begging letters.
Noun
screeve (plural screeves)
- (obsolete, UK, slang) A begging letter.
References
- “Screeve” in [John Camden Hotten], The Slang Dictionary , 5th edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1874, page 280.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Georgian მწკრივი (mc̣ḳrivi, “row, series”).
Noun
screeve (countable and uncountable, plural screeves)