kivver

English

Noun

kivver (plural kivvers)

  1. A fish, Lepomis gibbosus.
    Synonym: pumpkinseed
    • 1987, Jim Nollman, Animal Dreaming, page 45:
      Kivvers would bite at just about anything dropped into the water. I remember how my friend Donny once snagged three or four with a small safety pin jiggled back and forth in front of their faces.

Noun

kivver (plural kivvers)

  1. (archaic, dialect) Alternative form of kiver
    • 1886, James Whitcomb Riley, “The Elf Child”, in The Boss Girl. A Christmas Story and Other Sketches‎, page 178:
      An' when they turn't the kivvers down, he wasn't there at all!

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