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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