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- [jahyv]
- /dʒaɪv/
- /dʒaɪv/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [jahyv]
- /dʒaɪv/
Definitions of jiving word
- noun jiving swing music or early jazz. 1
- noun jiving the jargon associated with swing music and early jazz. 1
- noun jiving Slang. deceptive, exaggerated, or meaningless talk: Don't give me any of that jive! 1
- verb without object jiving to play jive. 1
- verb without object jiving to dance to jive; jitterbug. 1
- verb without object jiving Slang. to engage in kidding, teasing, or exaggeration. 1
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Origin of jiving
First appearance:
before 1920 One of the 12% newest English words
1920-25; origin obscure; alleged to be an alteration of gibe1, though the shift in sense and phonetic change are unexplained
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Parts of speech for Jiving
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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
jiving popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 78% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
jiving usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for jiving
noun jiving
- ruse — a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
- sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- bluster — If you say that someone is blustering, you mean that they are speaking aggressively but without authority, often because they are angry or offended.
- braggadocio — vain empty boasting
verb jiving
- tease — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- taunt — to reproach in a sarcastic, insulting, or jeering manner; mock.
- chaff — Chaff is the outer part of grain such as wheat. It is removed before the grain is used as food.
- deride — If you deride someone or something, you say that they are stupid or have no value.
- fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
Antonyms for jiving
noun jiving
- frankness — plainness of speech; candor; openness.
- honesty — the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
- openness — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- reality — the state or quality of being real.
- truth — the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
verb jiving
- flatter — to make flat.
- praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- protect — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- come clean — to make a revelation or confession
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