kivver

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nounkivver (plural kivvers)

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
Synonyms: pumpkinseed

nounkivver (plural kivvers)

alternativearchaicdialectalAlternative form 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

nounA fish, Lepomis gibbosus.

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