A small freshwater fish; a variant name for a type of fish similar to a smelt or young herring.
From 'chiver' plus the diminutive suffix '-et,' indicating a small version; possibly related to Old French 'civerel' or similar fish names.
Chiveret is a ghost word in English—appearing in historical dictionaries but rarely used, it shows how fishing communities had specific names for small fish that made sense locally but never spread widely enough to survive into modern usage.
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