skeeve

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːv

Verb

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

1. (informal) To be disgusted.
   • 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.

   • "You could put that needle in your arm? Man, I skeeve that like death." —Don DeLillo, Underworld (New York: Scribner, 1997), p. 727.

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