dodgy dog - what to do
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 09/12/16 11:58, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Shiv seems to be Romany, like chav, but spiv is slang that's passed into
general usage.
Slav is of course - er - slavic or is it Slavonic?
I was watching The Thick Of It last night, and Malcolm Tucker said
something like "all I have is a something and a chiv". Not a word I'm
familiar with, but it appears to be some kind of knife.
shiv, not chiv.
Romany for a blade
Probably. I got the spelling from the subtitles. They are usually
pretty random, though :-)
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