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Chevy   /tʃˈɛvi/  /ʃˈɛvi/   Listen
noun
Chevy  n.  (Written also chivy, and chivvy)  (Eng.)
1.
A cry used in hunting.
2.
A hunt; chase; pursuit.
3.
The game of prisoners' base. See Base, n., 24.



verb
Chevy  v. t.  See Chivy, v. t. (Slang, Eng.) "One poor fellow was chevied about among the casks in the storm for ten minutes."



Chivy  v. t.  (past & past part. chivvied; pres. part. chivvying)  (Also spelled chivvy, chevy, and chevvy)  To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch; to repeatedly cause annoyance or concern to. (Slang, Eng.)
Synonyms: harass, hassle, harry, beset, plague, molest, provoke.



chivvy  v.  (Also spelled chivy, chevy, and chevvy)  Same as chivy.
Synonyms: harass, hassle, harry, beset, plague, molest, provoke.






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"Chevy" Quotes from Famous Books



... in would surely be the wood, where he felt certain that there were no more Arabs, or they would have come out to join in the chevy. He would lie there till nightfall, and then endeavour to make his way to the column, though he did not feel like taking a long walk just ...
— For Fortune and Glory - A Story of the Soudan War • Lewis Hough

... raised his voice against the contempt with which our fine old ballads were regarded, and showed the scoffers that the same gold which, burnished and polished, gives lustre to the Aeneid and the Odes of Horace, is mingled with the rude dross of Chevy Chace. ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... impulsively from the leisurely moving victoria and looked back at the automobile which whizzed by the carriage, along the maple-lined road leading from Washington to Chevy Chase; then she as suddenly resumed her former position when she discovered that the young man, who was the only occupant of the motor-car, had slowed down and was gazing back ...
— The Lever - A Novel • William Dana Orcutt

... when there's so many other folks about, I don't know. I know how he'll answer me: 'A lonely person like you, Grammer,' er woll say. 'What difference is it to you what becomes of ye when the breath's out of your body?' Oh, it do trouble me! If you only knew how he do chevy me round the chimmer in my dreams, you'd pity me. How I could do it I can't think! But 'ch was always so rackless!...If I only had anybody ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... Still groans while tattling gossips prate. The mortar only chang'd its name, In its old shape a font became. The porringers, that in a row, Hung high, and made a glitt'ring show, To a less noble substance chang'd, Were now but leathern buckets rang'd. The ballads, pasted on the wall, Of Chevy Chase, and English Mall,[3] Fair Rosamond, and Robin Hood, The little Children in the Wood, Enlarged in picture, size, and letter, And painted, lookt abundance better, And now the heraldry describe Of a churchwarden, or a tribe. A ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift

... silent, when the utterance of a word would have ensured him from censure, and would join with others of the young men in the college in hunting, as they called it, the servitor who was thus diligent in his duty, and this they did with the noise of pots and candlesticks, singing to the tune of Chevy Chase the words in the ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell

... out to Chevy Chase," she said, "and I was just thinking of paying poor old General Lathom a visit. He does look so well in bronze, poor old dear, and all that ice round him will make him seem like an ogre in fairy-land. He wasn't a bit of an ogre, he was ...
— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton



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