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Chivy   Listen
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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.





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"Chivy" Quotes from Famous Books



... smoke from a house chimney-pot; another veer carries it away again,—depend upon it the simplest thing cooked there is nice. Shingle rattles as it is shovelled up for ballast—the sound of labour makes me more comfortably lazy. They are not in a hurry, nor "chivy" over their work either; the tides rise and fall slowly, and they work in correspondence. No infernal fidget and fuss. Wonder how long it would take me to pitch a pebble so as to lodge on the top of that large brown pebble there? I try, ...
— The Open Air • Richard Jefferies


Words linked to "Chivy" :   get to, molest, needle, rag, hassle, chevvy, plague, gravel, devil, get at, beset, harass, frustrate, goad, crucify, torment, chivvy, harry, rile, bedevil, nettle, chafe, vex, nark, provoke, bother, haze, irritate


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