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語源

From Italian schifo (“disgust, nausea”) and Italian schifare (“to find disgusting or loathsome; to loathe”), introduced by Italian immigrants to the United States. Also possibly just a Back-formation from skeevy, similarly from Italian.

発音

• IPA: /ˈskiːv/
• 韻: -iːv

動詞

skeeve (third-person singular simple present skeeves, present participle skeeving, simple past and past participle skeeved)

1. (slang, transitive, often with out) To disgust or disturb.
   • 1993, Pete Dexter, Brotherly Love‎, page 16:

     His mother is repulsed by his uncle; he has heard her whisper it in the kitchen, "I skeeves him, Charley." She is Italian.

   • 2011, Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle, chapter 3:

     “Beecher,” Clementine whispers, “if this is skeeving you out, let's just skip the room and—” ¶ “I'm fine. No skeeving at all,” I tell her, knowing full well that Iris would've had me leave ten minutes ago.

   • 1964, Lou Cameron, The Block Busters‎, page 186:

     I asked her, one time, if it didn't maybe skeeve her to work for a crud like Duke.

   • 2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic, Or, The Sexual Intellectual‎, page 215:

     "Those are not me — preppy jackets skeeve me! I hate those shoes."

   • 2013, Alyssa Rose Ivy, Soar (The Empire Chronicles #1)‎:

     At twenty-three, Eric wasn't that much older than my nineteen, but that didn't mean his pseudo-comeons didn't skeeve me out. There was something almost menacing about him.

2. (slang, transitive) To be disgusted or disturbed by.
   • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Scribner, page 727:

     You could put that needle in your arm? Man, I skeeve that like death.

   • 1999, Frank Renzulli, “Pax Soprana”, in The Sopranos, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Tony Soprana, Carmela Soprano (James Gandolfini, Edie Falco):

     Carmela: Sometimes I think you skeeve me. / Tony: I skeeve you? You’re the mother of my children. How could I?

3. (slang, intransitive) To be or become disgusted.
   • 1993, James McCourt, Time Remaining, →ISBN, page 67:

     I remember Phil telling O'Maurigan after the Schuyler reading he's afraid I won't ever write a book— not because I'm lazy, or don't have the self-esteem, but because I skeeve on stealing.

   • 2011, Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle, chapter 3:

     “Beecher,” Clementine whispers, “if this is skeeving you out, let's just skip the room and—” ¶ “I'm fine. No skeeving at all,” I tell her, knowing full well that Iris would've had me leave ten minutes ago.

   • 2009 May 28, Penelope Green, “Jersey Girls, Nesting”, in New York Times‎:

     Indeed, when baby-voiced Teresa describes the bone-crunching finishes in her new home, a 12,000-square-foot French chateau simulacrum that’s “all granite, marble and onyx,” and avers her commitment to the brand-spanking new (“I just skeeve looking at other people’s houses,” she says.

派生語

• skeeve out

名詞

skeeve (plural skeeves)

1. (slang) A disgusting or loathed person.
   • 1996, Robert DiChiara, Alibis, page 319:

     He looked so fucking competent, for a skeeve with greasy blond hair pulled into a ponytail, a beaded headband, and callused bare feet.

関連する語

• skeeved
• skeevy

Further reading

• “skeeve n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.

アナグラム

• keeves