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kivver en · NOUN · etymology 1

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1. A fish, Lepomis gibbosus.
   • 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. 1987, Jim Nollman, Animal Dreaming, page 45:

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pumpkinseed

kivver en · NOUN · etymology 2

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

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