Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) the face.

1899		C. Rook Hooligan Nights 40: Caught ’er one under the chib.
a.1901		G. Beauchamp ‘Faces’ 🎵 Chiv’s like easels - chiv’s like weasels / Put you in mind of Sir Peter Teazle’s.
1903		Sun. Times (Perth) 4 Jan. 4/7: Neither will they bet with ‘Tommy Rocks’ [...] or back a man to bruise another’s chiv.
1908		Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Oct. 3/2: ‘Young man, more girls have kissed this chiv of mine / Than you have dreamed of; now, I’d barter nine / And ninety kisses for one taste of this: / You take my tip, chuck spooning girls for wine!’.
1911		E. Dyson ‘On a Bender’ in Benno and Some of the Push 77: His face was like the chiv iv a pale goat I once saw what’d took a big drink on a lunch iv dried peas.
1916		C.J. Dennis ‘To the Boys Who Took the Count’ in Moods of Ginger Mick 103: ’Ere’s to the bloke wiv the bad-lookin’ chiv .
1924		(con. WWI) A.G. Pretty Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: chiv. Chin or jaw.
1963		R. McGregor-Hastie Compleat Migrant 106: Chiv: the face.