Etymology

kniving

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kniving · verb1

Inflected form of knive.

kniving · verb, adjective2

Likely a mishearing of the misconstrued word's pronunciation as kniving with a pronounced k, perhaps influenced by its semantic associations with backstabbing and knives.

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