cross-post from Linguist: "Schivi"

[Pearsons, Enid]

My thirtyish-year-old daughter was using the term as early as twenty years
ago, as well as related verby locutions like "That skeeves me out!"  I still
hear it/them.  Maybe that generation is easily skeeved.

Enid

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From: Laurence Horn [mailto:laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
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Subject: cross-post from Linguist: "Schivi"


as usual, responses should go (at least) to the poster,
Emery Snyder <emery_snyder at post.harvard.edu>.

larry

>
>LINGUIST List:  Vol-11-1067. Wed May 10 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875.
>
>Subject: 11.1067, Qs: American Dialect/"Schivi"
>
>
>Date:  Mon, 08 May 2000 06:12:03 -0400
>From:  Emery Snyder <emery_snyder at post.harvard.edu>
>Subject:  American dialect: schivi
>
>I teach at Rutgers (New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA). This year I heard my
>students using an adjective pronounced /ski:vi/, which they asserted meant
>"annoying" and came from Italian, where there is a word "schivi". They
>claimed the word had been around for about 10 years (which is about the
>range of their historical memory).
>
>Does anyone else have an attestation?
>