cheve

From Middle English cheven, from Old French chevir. See chievance.

cheve (third-person singular simple present cheves, present participle cheving, simple past and past participle cheved)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, dialect) To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed.

   to cheve well in a enterprise

   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book X.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:

     All things went well and chieved prosperously

• cheve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• veche

From French cheveux (“hair”).

cheve

1. hair

cheve

1. Alternative form of cyve

From chef +‎ -e (adjective inflected form suffix).

cheve

1. inflection of chef:
   1. weak singular
   2. strong/weak plural

Apocopic alteration of cerveza (“beer”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃebe/ [ˈt͡ʃe.β̞e]
• Rhymes: -ebe
• Syllabification: che‧ve

cheve f (plural cheves)

1. (slang, Mexico) beer

   Synonyms: cerveza, (slang) chela