hiving

Grant Barrett gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG
Wed Jan 17 11:51:33 UTC 2007


On Jan 17, 2007, at 00:32, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
> I've been inactive on the list the last couple of weeks because my
> wife and I had a baby on 28 Dec.  Not much time for internet, as
> you can imagine.

Congratulations!

> My mom visited us this weekend, and the baby made a smiling face at
> her.  I said, "Look, he's grinning at you."  She said, "No, he just
> hiving."

DARE doesn't seem to have it, but I turn up this rather awful thread
on Yahoo:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060904220321AAmWDkm

Its main value is giving the alternate form "hivey."

Grant Barrett
http://www.doubletongued.org/

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