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Definition: Spiv |
SpivNoun1. (British) a person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes; goes about smartly dressed and having a good time. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Spiv" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spiv" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spiv | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spiv"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spekulator (carpetbagger, profiteer, speculator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المتبطل يتكسب رزقه بطريقة مريبة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | черноборсаджия на дребно, лентяй (bummer, chairwarmer, faineant, lay about, rounder, slacker), безделник (black sheep, bum, cornerman, dangler, dead beat, deadbeat, do nothing, fiddler, fribble, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, lay about, loafer, loiterer, loon, lounger, spalpeen, tramp, twiddler, vagabond, wastrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | podfukář (conman, dodger, fiddler), flákaè (drifter, Idler, lollard, slacker, slob), èachrář. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | chevalier d'industrie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κομπινάδοροσ (jobber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jampec (dildo, dude, fop, posh, swaggerer, teddy boy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bockeen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivspay pensador (speculator, thinker), especulador (adventurer, bull, speculator, stag). (various references) спекулянт (black marketeer, scalper, speculator, value-added reseller, value-added resellers). (various references) probisvet (humbug, landloper, landlouper, picaroon, shack, sundowner, tramp). (various references) gandul (dodger, idle, Idler, lazy, loiterer, shirker, slacker, slob, truant), estraperlista (blackmarketeer, profiteer), chanchullero. (various references) gulaschbaron (profiteer), gulasch (goulash, profiteer), fifflare (fiddler, operator). (various references) yasadışı para kazanan kimse, vurguncu (adventurer, dodger, fly-by-night, jobber, looter, profiteer, racketeer), kirli para kazanan kimse, karaborsacı (black marketeer, jobber, racketeer, tout). (various references) спекулянт (boomster, extortioner, profiteer, speculator), темна особа. (various references) dân chợ đen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spiv": spivs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-s-v" | |
-1 letter: pis, psi, sip, vis. | |
-2 letters: is, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-s-v" | |
+1 letter: pavis, spivs. | |
+2 letters: parvis, pavins, pavise, pelvis, pivots, spavie, spavin, vespid, vipers. | |
+3 letters: improvs, parvise, passive, pavings, paviors, paviser, pavises, peavies, peevish, pelvics, pensive, piasava, plosive, previse, privets, privies, proviso, spavies, spaviet, spavins, updives, vampish, vespids, vespine. | |
+4 letters: captives, deprives, disprove, fivepins, improves, overslip, overspin, overtips, oviposit, pahlavis, parvises, passives, paviours, pavisers, peccavis, pelvises, pervious, piasavas, piassava, plausive, plosives, pluvials, pluviose, pluvious, positive, postdive, poxvirus, prelives, prevails, previews, previous, prevised, previses, previsor, privates, priviest, provides, provirus, provisos, pulvinus, purviews, slipover, sorptive, spavined, sportive, uprivers, vampires, vaporise, vaporish, vespiary, viperish, viperous. | |
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