Jump to content

chivear

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Spanish

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

chivear (first-person singular present chiveo, first-person singular preterite chiveé, past participle chiveado)

  1. (intransitive, colloquial, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala) to gamble with cards or dices, generally wagering money.
  2. (intransitive, El Salvador) to play darts
  3. (transitive, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador) to make (someone) embarrassed
  4. (intransitive, pronominal, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador) to blush; to get embarrassed
  5. (intransitive, pronominal, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua) to escape

Conjugation

[edit]

Quotations

[edit]
  • 2017 November 12, Jessica Rojas Ch, “Tamela Hedström le da a su música nuevos aires”, in La Nación (Costa Rica)[1]:
    Quería chivear, pero por mi pie no puedo estar haciendo loco, quiero producir, quiero crear, así que me puse a escribir canciones con mucha gente buena.
    (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

[edit]