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Meaning of "stivy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STIVY

stivy  [ˈstaɪvɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STIVY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stivy is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES STIVY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of stivy in the English dictionary

The definition of stivy in the dictionary is stuffy, stifling.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STIVY


agave
əˈɡeɪvɪ
cavie
ˈkeɪvɪ
chivy
ˈtʃɪvɪ
civvy
ˈsɪvɪ
clavie
ˈkleɪvɪ
Davy
ˈdeɪvɪ
divi
ˈdɪvɪ
divvy
ˈdɪvɪ
gravy
ˈɡreɪvɪ
ivy
ˈaɪvɪ
jivey
ˈdʒaɪvɪ
jivy
ˈdʒaɪvɪ
Livy
ˈlɪvɪ
mavie
ˈmeɪvɪ
navy
ˈneɪvɪ
privy
ˈprɪvɪ
skivie
ˈskaɪvɪ
slavey
ˈsleɪvɪ
wavey
ˈweɪvɪ
wavy
ˈweɪvɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STIVY

stirrup leather
stirrup pump
stirrup strap
stishie
stitch
stitch up
stitch wheel
stitch-up
stitchcraft
stitcher
stitchery
stitching
stitchwork
stitchwort
stithied
stithies
stithy
stive
stiver
stk

WORDS THAT END LIKE STIVY

American ivy
bevy
Boston ivy
chevy
curvy
envy
grape ivy
groovy
ground ivy
heavy
Japanese ivy
levy
navvy
poison ivy
Royal Navy
savvy
superheavy
tantivy
the navy
weeping ivy

Synonyms and antonyms of stivy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «stivy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STIVY

Find out the translation of stivy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stivy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stivy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

stivy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Stivy
570 millions of speakers

English

stivy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

stivy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

stivy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

stivy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

stivy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

stivy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

stivy
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Stivy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

stivy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

stivy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

stivy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stivy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

stivy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

stivy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्थिर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

stivy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stivy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stivy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

stivy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stivy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

stivy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stivy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stivy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stivy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stivy

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STIVY»

The term «stivy» is used very little and occupies the 161.655 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STIVY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «stivy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «stivy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stivy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STIVY»

Discover the use of stivy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stivy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms
stivy Used in Maine for crowded, crammed, stuffy. “It was stivy in there.” Also stived up. stone drag A vehicle without wheels that is used to collect stones from fields. stone fence Originally the New England term for what is now generally called ...
Robert Hendrickson, 2000
2
All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal
... seventy degrees and eighty degrees, very rarely rising to ninety ; and the mornings and evenings are so agreeably fresh and cool, that we never feel the prostrating lassitude that one experiences in hot, close weather in a stivy English town.
Charles Dickens, 1871
3
An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
E.stivy, close, stifling (Worcestershire). Stive isaF. word, from OF. estiver <. stīpāre , to compress, packtight, as explained under Stevedore. Note that E. stiff and L. stīpγre are closely related words, fromthe same root. STIGMATISE, to brand with  ...
Walter W. Skeat, 2013
4
Wild Oats and Dead Leaves
says I. ' Arretay,' says he, which I knew by his look meant something bad ; and there they rummidged it dreadful, and afterwards 1 was boxed up in the back of this machine, in a stivy part, just like a slice of omnibus, with foreign gentlemen, who ...
Albert Smith, 1860
5
Nobody's Fortune; a Novel
“But what I can't understand is, how a young man can willingly stop in a stivy slip of a hole, in the midst of all that smoky atmosphere, 'poring over his law-books, when there is no necessity for it, when he might be here, his own master, in a ...
Edmund Hodgson Yates, 1872
6
Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers
Ah, the stivy pew, with such scanty allotted space even for one's then littleness of limb; the hot afternoon sun, unchecked by blind of any sort, glaring down upon our devoted little heads; the occasional glimpse of the green churchyard, with its  ...
‎1861
7
Who shall be heir?
questioned Richard appealing to Miss Bailey. " No — to be sure not ; I should prefer Brighton ; but cracks in the wall keep the poor people healthy, letting in air — their rooms are generally so hot and stivy that there is no breathing in them.
Ellen Pickering, 1840
8
English Language Word Builder
... STELAI STELAI STELE STELLa STEME STEND STICHS STIME STIRE STIVY* STOIT STONG STONK STOPEL STOSS+ ...
Bob Jackman, 2012
9
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary
She came out of this stivy tenement at the sound of our boiling radiator, and stood framed in the doorway, shading her eyes against the sun, a tall and graceful, very pretty girl, dressed in cool white which might have been fresh from its ...
Maurice Henry Hewlett, 2012
10
Static Analysis: 5th International Symposium, SAS'98, Pisa, ...
... SAS'98, Pisa, Italy, September 14-16, 1998, Proceedings Giorgio Levi. Refining Static Analyses by Trace-Based Partitioning Using Control Flow Maria Handjieva and Stanislav Tzolovski LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France {handjiev, stivy} ...
Giorgio Levi, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STIVY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stivy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
WHERE'S ED?: Slight change of plan after unicyclist Ed Pratt …
Dave Stivy added: "Keep going Ed. These hiccups make it even more exciting. Going luck in Asia." Having travelled more than 200 miles from Istanbul around ... «Western Gazette, Jul 15»
2
Briga entre torcedores termina com trem quebrado na Estação Barro
De: Stivy Keven- 12/07/2015 10:57 Edite a matéria! A Estação Barro se localiza no bairro de Jardim São Paulo, já próximo á divisa com o bairro do Barro! «NE10, Jul 15»
3
Bosque da Comunidade recebe a Exposição de Trovas e Haicais
Na ocasião haverá uma apresentação musical com os instrutores Stivy Henrique, José Ricardo Passeti e Francisco Ribeiro, da Divisão de Ensino às Artes da ... «Jornal da Cidade - Baurú, Sep 14»
4
Vodka brand, Stivy's, launches into flavoured cider market with two …
VC² Brands, the company behind Stivy's Vodka Liqueur, has extended the iconic Stivy's Brand into the flavoured cider market with the launch of two new ... «Retail Times, Jun 14»
5
Bibliotecas: ramais de lazer e conhecimento
De acordo com Stivy, os benefícios das aulas vão muito além do prazer proporcionado pelas canções. Nelas, os estudantes trabalham a concentração e a ... «Jornal da Cidade - Baurú, Feb 14»
6
“Wewetoo”, il prêt-à-porter made in Burundi
... moda prêt-à-porter interamente concepita e realizzata da tre giovani burundesi, gli stilisti Zue Salim e Nelson Niyakire e il direttore marketing, Stivy Niyakire. «Atlas Quotidiano di Esteri, Jul 13»
7
"Astérix et Obélix : Au service de sa Majesté" : une nouvelle bande …
@Stivy D.: Ta rien compris toi!!!! J'ai dis que pour moi sa ressemblé a une réalisation de paul w.s. anderson a cause du coté trop "artificiel", j'ai jamais comparé ... «AlloCiné, Sep 12»
8
Family's bar wars would 'see teen in the morgue'
She said that Paris was advertising on Facebook that vodka, Jagermeister, Sambuca, tequila, Red Bull and Lucozade, and all Stivy shots were available for as ... «Irish Examiner, Jun 12»
9
Stiffy's vodka banned over suggestive name
... stocks of Stiffy's Jaffa Cake and Stiffy's Kola Kubez vodka in their current packaging after 31 December. The company has changed the brand name to Stivy's. «The Drinks Business, Nov 11»
10
ROOSDAAL huldigt zijn kampioenen
... en Kevin Ardiclar), Motorsport (Jonas De Mel), Hondensport (Tim Goossens, Karina Van de Keere, Stivy de Groot, Sabrina Van Beemen en Pieter Goossens). «Editiepajot, Jun 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Stivy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/stivy>. Apr 2024 ».
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