verb. (old colloquial).—To sneak or lounge away; to idle. SLIVE-ANDREW = a good-for-nothing; SLIVERLY = artful; SLIVING = idle. TO LET SLIVE (American) = to let fly.
1707. CENTLIVRE, The Platonick Lady, iv. I know her gown agen: I minded her when she SLIV’D OFF. Ibid. (1710), The Man’s Bewitched, iii. The SLIVING Baggage will not come to a Resolution yet.
1725. N. BAILEY, trans. The Colloquies of Erasmus, 41. What are you a SLIVING about, you drone? You are a year a lighting a candle.
1847. ROBB, Streaks of Squatter Life, 111. As soon as I clapped peeper on him I let SLIVER, when the varmint dropped like a log.
