Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See chevy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Slang, Eng. To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch; to repeatedly cause annoyance or concern to.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A hunt or chase.
  • noun A hunting cry.
  • verb transitive To vex or harass with petty attacks.
  • verb transitive To maneuver or secure gradually.
  • verb intransitive To scurry.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb annoy continually or chronically

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Examples

  • Every year I have some seven such hopefuls whom, to express it in the students 'slang, I "chivy" or "floor."

    The Wife, and other stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • They are not in a hurry, nor "chivy" over their work either; the tides rise and fall slowly, and they work in correspondence.

    The Open Air Richard Jefferies 1867

  • Little Monsters has been sitting on the shelf for months in proof copy, but it took a tempting review over at John Self's Asylum and the arrival of an actual published version of the book to chivy me into action.

    Little Monsters 2008

  • Little Monsters has been sitting on the shelf for months in proof copy, but it took a tempting review over at John Self's Asylum and the arrival of an actual published version of the book to chivy me into action.

    Little Monsters 2008

  • Little Monsters has been sitting on the shelf for months in proof copy, but it took a tempting review over at John Self's Asylum and the arrival of an actual published version of the book to chivy me into action.

    47 entries from February 2008 2008

  • And as husbands and wives we are to encourage, grow, chivy and take care of each other in any number of ways.

    stewardship Sara 2008

  • And as husbands and wives we are to encourage, grow, chivy and take care of each other in any number of ways.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Sara 2008

  • But already all the loafers and roughs in the place seemed to be congregated round the entrance, after the polite custom of the country to chivy, or boo, or huzza those who went in.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • One man mounts a white pony, and galloping before the elephant, induces him, as he readily does, — firearms being unknown, — to charge and “chivy.”

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • Seeing that the human was steadily expanding the distance between them, Jemunu-jah did his best to chivy the Deyzara forward.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

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  • “Like the bill that will probably emerge from Congress, the Massachusetts reform mainly relies on a combination of regulation and subsidies to chivy a mostly private system into providing near-universal coverage.�?

    The New York Times, After Reform Passes, by Paul Krugman, October 25, 2009

    October 26, 2009